Pg 120 Quotes & Sayings

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life. — Frances Perkins

Jay couldn't fill that empty space with anything. Nothing brought him joy. — Ilchi Lee

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre. — Rafael Cruz

Life is holy and it is for all of us. God's design, I cannot understand myself and I never will, but I do know that what we are experiencing now will pass and in the end we will all be brothers, not just blood brothers, as we are, but brothers in spirit. Neither you nor I can change the world or human nature and we can only aim at changing attitudes - and perhaps teach those who have so much to give a portion of their blessings to those who have less. — F. Sionil Jose

When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited. — Thomas Eakins

I'd really rather die than eat your food and listen to you call me love. — Tahereh Mafi

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself. — Juliana Hatfield

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money. — Tyler Perry

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will — Cassandra Clare

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.

~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121 — John Green

I don't like people talking bad about me, I get hurt so precisely I don't end up saying that for others. — Katrina Kaif

Mark, shaken, realizes he has just made the terrible mistake of not just seeming to be but actually being sincere. — Ali Smith

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. — N. Scott Momaday

In that light, across the field, is all I will never have. Next to me is all I will. — Andrea Barrett

Scholarship without virtue is like pearls pearls — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I Have been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and drowned themselves. My story is not the same as his. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there. — George MacDonald