Revaluing Quotes & Sayings

You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians because I have destroyed a few things. The builder of your Cathedral is forgotten even now, but I, who burned it, may be remembered for a hundred years or so. And that may mean something or other about mankind. — John Steinbeck

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king. — Alexander Pope

Planning my food a bit helps me. Knowing what I'm going to be eating for lunch helps, instead of getting hungry and then looking for something. — Sasha Alexander

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that. — Paulo Coelho

Truth has a certain sound to it. Your spirit will hear it clearly and leap inside of you and you will feel hope; even if your mind is still wrestling with all the pieces. — Yvette R. Dempster

The reality is, that no matter what you do in this life, it's coming to an end. Once you accept there's nothing that you can do about your own mortality, then you're now free. You have no control, so stop pretending you do. And just get on with living your life. Stop living in fear. — Jeb Corliss

I actually don't read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits. — Mark Zuckerberg

We're not show-business people. We have a life. — Patti LuPone

I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way. — Lee Maracle

If you study and prepare then success will follow. — Jonathan Bishop

When the government intervenes to help, whether in the European welfare state or in America's more diluted version, it not only diminishes our responsibility for the desired outcome, it enfeebles the institutions through which people live satisfying lives. — Charles Murray

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example. — Seneca The Younger

All these activities are forms of adult play that also serve as ceremonial acts of remembering - who we are, where we came from, how nature works. — Michael Pollan

My character from 'Panda Eyes,' Fay, is the character I see myself in a lot. — Sophie Turner