Prudence Mercer Quotes & Sayings

I didn't do the typical things that young kids do. — Balthazar Getty

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. — John Ruskin

Desiring something is, without doubt, a move toward possession of that something ("possession" meaning that in some way or other the object should enter our orbit and become part of us). For this reason, desire automatically dies when it is fulfilled; it ends with satisfaction. Love, on the other hand, is eternally unsatisfied. Desire has a passive character; when I desire something, what I actually desire is that the object come to me. Being the center of gravity, I await things to fall down before me. Love ... is the exact reverse of desire, for love is all activity. Instead of the object coming to me, it is I who go to the object and become part of it. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children. — Carrie Fisher

I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my experience, they want no real representations of homosexuality, they want no complexity, they are terrified of ambiguity and unanswered questions - they don't know what they want, except that they want to make lots of money. The only freedom I've ever had as an artist has been in the theatre ... — Craig Lucas

Your faith depends on the strength of its object ... a puny god just won't do. — Steven J. Lawson

Just let it happen and, I promise you, all that is magic will appear. — Nikki Sixx

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project. — Mitch Kapor

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright] — Jude Law

It is not the race that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people: circumstances geographical, economic, and political create a culture, and the culture creates a human type. — Will Durant

Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it 'two things that seem to be contradictory but may possibly be true.' But that's not a real paradox
a real paradox IS contradictory and IS true. So I don't even call them paradoxes anymore, I call them 'contradictory co-existing realities,' both in direct opposition to each other, both true at the same time. — Shellen Lubin

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy. — Jennifer Jason Leigh

All paradises have gates," Falchi said. "You'd wonder why God made Paradise with an exit if he didn't anticipate having to use it eventually. — Aleksandr Voinov

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications. — Drew Endy