Returning Favours Quotes & Sayings

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss. — Gillian Flynn

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. — Raymond Queneau

When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa. — Hakeem Olajuwon

It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up. — Margaret Thatcher

Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and again. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. Go — Diana Gabaldon

Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities. — Debi Mazar

Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend. — Tucker Max

So this is how a war starts ... Not with two armies facing off, waiting for the signal to charge ... It begins much more quietly. In a room, on a field, in a remote tunnel when someone who has power decides the time has come. — Suzanne Collins

Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it. — Nick Burd

Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness. — Dalai Lama

When I was younger, I enjoyed being strong, and I loved it when my heart was very strong, but I think it was also about submitting to the cultural idea that if you're a 22-year-old woman, you have to look a certain way. I'm not into that anymore. But I do appreciate it when my clothes fit. — Jennifer Beals

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor — Neal Shusterman

Temperament and tightness often go together. But if you're tight, you can't sing. So I have to have that tension in my body but not in my voice. — Sondra Radvanovsky