Robert Bigelow Quotes & Sayings

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. — Lawrence Durrell

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances.
[Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.] — Horace

It's because we love a person that we love the world. And we want it to be better. — Carlos Franz

I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language. — Yuriy Tarnawsky

Nothing is stronger than the will of the human heart. — Nalini Singh

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it. — Vernon Howard

P.S. I fear that in person I shall prove to be a sore disappointment. With pen and paper I am at ease; in the solitude of my own company my thoughts and ideas flow without obstruction. But before others it takes me the greatest effort to string two words together, and more often than not my words emerge awkward and off-putting. — Sherry Thomas

When you really want a role, you just put your soul in it. — Billy Magnussen

We are so conceited and so unproud. — D.H. Lawrence

Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry
of life in their own way, just like writers deal with
archetypes. There are only so many stories that you can
tell, but an infinite number of storytellers. — Henry Mosquera

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality. — Rousas John Rushdoony

I'm not saying it's what I would have wanted. But don't you see? We fuck up our lives again and again and it's always our children who pick up the bill. We move on to new relationships, always starting over, always thinking we've got another chance to get it right, it's the kids from all these broken marriages who pay the price. They - my son, your daughters, all the millions like them - are carrying around wounds that are going to last a lifetime. It has to stop. — Tony Parsons

Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually. — Czeslaw Milosz