Patrimonialisation Quotes & Sayings

Many different thoughts rise up in the darkness - like those gossamer plants that grow in the lake, oddly bewitching and pretty as they bob and sway; but enticing and sinister, they exert a dark pull as long as they're growing in the living, trickling mire. ANd yet as long as they're nothing but slimey brown clumps when the children pull them in to the boat. So many strange thoughts, both terrifying and enticing, grow in the night. — Sigrid Undset

I think I did realize that early on, and then I went through a fun phase where I was figuring out who I was and the different sides of myself. I think like most women, I bought into a certain ideal of beauty that I didn't quite fit into, and I tried to pretzel myself and alter myself to be what I was told is beautiful, and then I realized that you are in control of what you think is beautiful. — Evan Rachel Wood

Who needs power and stamina when you could be pretty, right? — Mike Madrid

I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy. — Chad Hurley

Swedes, compared to Americans, can seem a little cold and introverted. — Yukimi Nagano

I wish that I would have asked my grandparents more about their early lives in Italy when I had the chance to do so. — Marianne Perry