Roleof Quotes & Sayings

May you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back — Lucille Clifton

As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay. — Saul Bellow

But we all suffer. For we all prize and love; and in this present existence of ours, prizing and loving yield suffering. Love in our world is suffering love. Some do not suffer much, though, for they do not love much. Suffering is for the loving. This, said Jesus, is the command of the Holy One: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." In commanding us to love, God invites us to suffer. — Nicholas Wolterstorff

You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules — Kim Wilde

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty. — Antonya Nelson

You imagine you can see me, Mother? All you could ever see was your own face in a mirror."
"Who am I, Mother? I'm not you. That's why you wish I were dead. You can't shape me anymore. — Janet Fitch

The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing monetary policy but also changing the behavior of consumers, employers and workers. The role of a sudden, jarring policy shift is that it quickly alters expectations, signaling to the public that the rules of the game have changed dramatically - prices will not keep rising, nor will wages. — Naomi Klein

Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others. — David Boaz

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road — Henry Ward Beecher

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it. — John Cusack

Exercise caution, as I have advised many people. — George Carman

Satire is born of the cities it denounces. — Mason Cooley