Satrapa Quotes & Sayings

It's quite hard to stay calm and understanding when you see the same faces, the same mistakes made again and again. — Jojo Moyes

Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity. — Silas L. Copeland

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inspiration is a tool and a trap. If you're going to be inspired by anyone, be inspired by people who have been exactly where you are now. — Douglas Copeland

Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body. — Jean Houston

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too. — Annie Dillard

It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child. — Jim Harrison

The people who need to grow, are the ones allowed the least chance to have a say in their own growth. — Srividya Srinivasan

The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him. — Edward John Carnell