Screwy Rolie Quotes & Sayings

All that was good in me thrilled in my heart at that moment, all that I hoped for in the profound, obscure meaning of my existence. Here was the endlessly mute placidity of nature, indifferent to the great city; here was the desert beneath these streets, around these streets, waiting for the city to die, to cover it with timeless sand once more. There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness. Then men seemed brave to me, and I was proud to be numbered among them. All the evil of the world seemed not evil at all, but inevitable and good and part of that endless struggle to keep the desert down. — John Fante

I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach ... — Anne Rice

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill. — Emilie Autumn

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer. — Barack Obama

What makes us fully human is the relentless quest for making things a little bit better. — Robin Sharma

I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy. — Jason Momoa

You can always close your eyes to the truth and you can be sure that the truth will in no way take this into consideration! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood. — Evangeline Lilly

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing — Albert Schweitzer

Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization. — Robin Sharma