Opencourseware Program Quotes & Sayings

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. — Demi Moore

Is it possible that the reasons you had for making that promise to yourself don't hold true anymore? Might it be the promise to yourself that's keeping you back, more than the reasons behind the promise? And if that's the case, you mustn't think of a promise to yourself in the same way as a promise to someone else. If you're changing your mind now, that's not wrong. What would be wrong would be to deny it or run away from it. I've sat up for too many nights with you not to know you've thought it all through. You have more courage than anyone else I know. But you're more stubborn, too. It would be hard for you to admit to yourself that it's time to change your mind. — Louise Harwood

Oh, so does that mean I'm in trouble? Should I lift my skirt and get on all fours?" I asked, teasingly. — Lilly Wilde

I write things in my house, and hopefully there's a reader out there who enjoys it and has an experience with it, but that's very different than a performer on stage, where there's an immediate dance with the audience. It's incredibly powerful. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them. — Charles Stanley

Ah, I wager you are most assuredly not useless as a woman, Caecelia. — Sai Marie Johnson

Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning. — Meher Baba

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage. — Mel Torme

Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other. — Paulo Coelho

Zebras don't change their stripes, and war criminals don't repent. — Jodi Picoult

He'd thought her unattractive in this mode, head turned down, voice so quiet. Not any longer. Some women blazed with light and energy. Miss Pursling reminded him of the pearlescent hint of dawn that crept under the door after a long, long night. There was a quiet grace to her, like a tiger pacing in its cage. There was a majesty in claws unused, in muscles poised for action that never came. There was a somber beauty to a caged beast. — Courtney Milan

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding. — John Hurt

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain. — Tertullian

Change & transformation. That kind of magic. — Julia Green