Orthographical La Quotes & Sayings

The people with thriving careers and healthy personal relationships get the same amount of time each week as the burned-out professional who can't remember their last meaningful conversation with a family member. — Joe Jordan

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself. — Rita Ora

I was invited to visit a friend who was very sick ... When I came to him, he said to me, "Henri, here I am lying in this bed, and I don't even know how to think about being sick. My whole way of thinking about myself is in terms of action, in terms of doing things for people. My life is valuable because I've been able to do many things for many people. And suddenly, here I am, passive, and I can't do anything anymore."
As we talked I realized that he and many others were constantly thinking, "How much can I still do?" Somehow this man had learned to think about himself as a man who was worth only what he was doing. And so when he got sick, his hope seemed to rest on the idea that he might get better and return to what he had been doing. If the spirit of this man was dependent on how much he would still be able to do, what did I have to say to him? — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle. — Howard Wilkinson

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer. — Peter Max

She knew they were all afraid. But love and disease are both like electricity, Weetzie thought. They are always there
you can't see or smell or hear, touch or taste them, but you know they are there like a current in the air. We can choose, Weetzie thought, we can choose to plug into the love current instead. — Francesca Lia Block

German-made Heckler & Koch MP-7 submachine guns with special compact M40 grenade launchers under the barrels. — Matthew Reilly

The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight. — Evan Esar

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don't find under most other circumstances. — A.B. Shepherd

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. — Renee Fleming

So that's what it is!" he suddenly exclaimed aloud. "What joy! — Leo Tolstoy

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another. — Louise Bogan

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn't. — Jennifer Weiner