Palaemon Xena Quotes & Sayings

I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident with being different! — Nadia Ali

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material ... — Salvatore Ferragamo

I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even then that I wanted to do something of an intellectual nature, and excel at it. I also realized that if I was going to succeed at all, it would be through hard work. — Irving Sandler

Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad, slightly twisted - then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle. — Agatha Christie

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him. — Henry David Thoreau

The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual. — Marcia Siegel

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.' — Tiger Woods

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible. — Jacques Ellul

As this is one of those deep observations which very few readers can be supposed capable of making themselves, I have thought proper to lend them my assistance; but this is a favour rarely to be expected in the course of my work. Indeed, I shall seldom or never so indulge him, unless in such instances as this, where nothing but the inspiration with which we writers are gifted can possibly enable anyone to make the discovery. — Henry Fielding

In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian. — William A. Henry III

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing. — Morgan Llywelyn

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job. — Kate Adie

Let grace conduct thee to the paths of peace. — Francis Quarles