Salian Quotes & Sayings

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises. — Ron Suskind

Dedicated to: You.
You were a total gentleman and a relief. And I believe that joy becomes you - you most certainly deserve it. — J.R. Ward

Black slaves seem to have cost from two to three hundred dirhams; black eunuchs, at least two or three times as much. Female black slaves were sold at five hundred dirhams or so; trained singing girls or other performers, at ten or even twenty thousand. — Bernard Lewis

If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works. — Beth Riesgraf

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise. — Mary Szybist

When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv. — Kurt Braunohler

I have since talked to some of my girlfriends sexual assault and found out that they had their own experiences that they never shared at the time. It was never talked about it. And I think it's because of that normal response - you feel badly, you feel responsible, you feel guilty, you feel like you did something wrong, you feel ashamed. — Kirsten Gillibrand

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers — Peter Drucker

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life. — Eric Hoffer

DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know? — Hillary DePiano

Anger was beautiful, because its core was the absence of all doubt. When anger wrapped you up in yourself and you knew that you were right and righteous - that the very universe was in agreement with you - at that moment you were a god, and anyone who crossed you or disagreed with you was worse than wrong, they were heretics, apostates, twisted in the very womb. — Greg Keyes