Romille Kuykendoll Quotes & Sayings

May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is. — Zen

Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything
God and our friends and ourselves included
as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred. — C.S. Lewis

What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence? — Milan Kundera

I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people. — Vivienne Westwood

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. — Gerald M. Loeb

My mother always texts me saying 'Fighting! Do well, my handsome son!'. — Jay Park

As the soul leaves the body torn and bruised
As the mind deserts the body it has used.
I should find
Some way incomparably light and deft,
Some way we both should understand,
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand. — T. S. Eliot

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. — Paul Ryan

She looked across the room at Will , she wasn't sure why, only to find that he was looking back at her. They both glanced hastily away. — Cassandra Clare

The purpose of diversification is so that when one investment goes down or is not doing well, you are insulated from the result because of the others you have in place. In a job or career, most of us are trying to specialize so much so that we've ended up with all of our eggs in the same basket. That's not managing risk at all. That's putting yourself at risk. - Chris Lutz — Chris Lutz

You'll do what makes you happy, and that'll be all I ask for. — Ted Chiang

When people ask me about my hometown, I tell them it was called after a wolf before it was partially tamed and settled. — Jesmyn Ward

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. — Louis L'Amour

I hate it when people throw away food - I've seen too many hungry people. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I am obviously not a patient person. — Katie Heaney