Normandeau Associates Quotes & Sayings

She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind. — Comte De Lautreamont

I don't really do indulgences. I'm more interested in discipline, goal setting, and performance. — Jessica Bird

There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean. — K.M. Douglas

Awareness is a choiceless consciousness. Awareness is the capacity to embrace, accept and include both joy and sadness, love and aloneness, light and darkness, male and female qualities and life and death.
Through saying "yes" and accepting both tendencies and including whatever aspect that happens in the moment, we meet our unlimited and boundless inner being. The inner man and woman need to find their own independence and integrity. — Swami Dhyan Giten

We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders. — Joel Salatin

The city went on about its business. A new day would soon begin, and nothing so inconsequential as a death possessed the power to delay it. It was just a life, after all: no more, nor less than that. — R.J. Ellory

He winked at me over her head, causing my bra to try and unclasp itself in sweet surrender. — Tracy Brogan

Karate is a technique that permits one to defend himself with his bare hands and fists without weapons. — Gichin Funakoshi

One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views. — Khem Veasna

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off. — Dane Cook

But in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant. — Wes Anderson

Those the walkers carried into the Wood were less lucky. We didn't know what happened to them, but they came back out sometimes, corrupted in the worst way: smiling and cheerful, unharmed. They seemed almost themselves to anyone who didn't know them well, and you might spend half a day talking with one of them and never realize anything was wrong, until you found yourself taking up a knife and cutting off your own hand, putting out your own eyes, your own tongue, while they kept talking all the while, smiling, horrible. And then they would take the knife and go inside your house, to your children, while you lay outside blind and choking and helpless even to scream. If someone we loved was taken by the walkers, the only thing we knew to hope for them was death, and it could only be a hope. — Naomi Novik