Paraic Odonnell Quotes & Sayings

I've clearer idea of how I don't want to be seen - as someone who does what everyone wants them to. — Lana Del Rey

There was the finest line between unique and odd, — Jodi Picoult

Now that young girls like my twelve-year-old friend Mai are being exposed to modern Western women like me through crowds of tourists, they're experiencing those first critical moments of cultural hesitation. I call this the "Wait-a-Minute Moment" - that pivotal instant when girls from traditional cultures start pondering what's in it for them, exactly, to be getting married at the age of thirteen and starting to have babies not long after. They start wondering if they might prefer to make different choices for themselves, or any choices, for that matter. Once girls from closed societies start thinking such thoughts, all hell breaks loose. — Elizabeth Gilbert

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passing inside they looked towards the bed. Dr. Livingstone was not lying on it, but appeared to be engaged in prayer, and they instinctively drew backwards for the instant. Pointing to him, Majwara said, "When I lay down he was just as he is now, and it is because I find that he does not move that I fear he is dead." They asked the lad how long he had slept? Majwara said he could not tell, but he was sure that it was some considerable time: the men drew nearer. A candle stuck by its own wax to the top of the box, shed a light sufficient for them to see his form. Dr. Livingstone was kneeling by the side of his bed, his body stretched forward, his head buried in his hands upon the pillow. For a minute they watched him: he did not stir, there was no sign of breathing; then one of them, Matthew, advanced softly to him and placed his hands to his cheeks. It was sufficient; life had been extinct some time, and the body was almost cold: Livingstone was dead. — David Livingstone

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type. — Carmen Dell'Orefice

I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things. — Geena Davis

i just want my girls to have babies. that's all. so they know what i know. — Elizabeth Noble

Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice. — Aidan Gillen

It's not a real relationship if you're not spending at least half of it pretending to get along fine for the benefit of other people.' Adam — Nick Spalding

God cannot do for us what he cannot do through us. — Marianne Williamson

Mistakes and failure are not signs of weakness; instead they are opportunities for future success. Failure is a sign of a creative mind, of original thought and strength. — Edward B. Burger

We should try to be happy, just to set an example — Jacques Prevert