Samhita Academy Quotes & Sayings

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. — Jack Nicholson

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. — Tom Robbins

This late afternoon, they stood shoulder to shoulder at the masthead, watching the dockhands tie up the boat. Though she was four years younger and a girl, they were nearly the same height, Gina and Salvo. Gina was actually taller. No one could figure out where she got the height; her parents and brothers were not tall. Look, the villagers would say. Two "piccolo" brothers and a "di altezza" sister. Oh, that's because we have different fathers, Gina would reply dryly. Salvo would smack her upside the head when he heard her say this. Think what you're saying about our mother, he would scold, crossing himself and her at her impudence. — Paullina Simons

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love. — Bell Hooks

If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us. — Kevin Systrom

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy. — Randa Haines

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have. — Kirk Gibson

It is a valuable lesson that should often be reinforced - that many who are faced with impending death, a disease that will likely take them in a year's time, for example, quite often insist that their affliction is the best thing that ever happened to them. It takes the immediacy of mortality to remind them to watch the sunrise and the sunset, to note the solitary flower among the rocks, to appreciate those loved ones around them, to taste their food, and revel in the feel of a cool breeze. — R.A. Salvatore