Pickards Housing Quotes & Sayings

Destroy desire completely for the present. For if you desire anything which is not in our power, you must be unfortunate — Epictetus

For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite. — Samuel Beckett

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself. — Spalding Gray

I did a film many years ago called The Man Without A Face.Gaby [Hoffmann] was in with Mel Gibson. That was his directing debut. He did a great job. — Richard Masur

Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me omg boner. — Leah Raeder

Sometimes I can still sleep it off, my fear. My dreams are gentle now even when they are about being mugged, robbed and knocked down, even when I am pressing my car key into a bit of yielding earth. But often in the afternoons I wake after a nap with an awful sense of its being over and that it never meant much; I never had a life. The valuable sweetness and the hard work are infected by the fact of death: they no longer seem to have been so wonderful, but they are all I had. And then I want to be comforted. I want my old, unthreatening forms of silence, and comedy-and-cowardice. I want breath and stories and the world. — Harold Brodkey

Fighting the Traditional Marriage is provoking God;Beheading Jesus is to lead the church without His rulership or Counsel.Woe to theme who — Paul Gitwaza

Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity. — Shirley Maclaine

My voice is loud and piercing, and I project like I was once told by a doctor during a childhood illness that I would never speak again. — Mindy Kaling

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful. — Annie Lennox

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. — Fidel Castro

The most expensive card you'll hold in your pocket is trust, if used irresponsibly, the charges become costly and the debt is often unforgivable — Silent Dugood

A lengthy term of community service working with addicts on the outside would probably have driven the same truth home and been a hell of a lot more productive for the community. But our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right to the people they have harmed. (I was lucky to get there on my own, with the help of the women I met.) Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in. — Piper Kerman

Man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future. — Ellen Sturgis Hooper