Secolari Artisan Quotes & Sayings

To play the demagogue for purposes of self-interest is a cardinal sin against the people in a democracy, exactly as to play the courtier for such purposes is a cardinal sin against the people under other forms of government. — Theodore Roosevelt

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you. — Sarah Rees Brennan

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit. — Molly Ivins

Colter was so particular about the colors she used in decorating that she sometimes mixed her own. For the interior of Bright Angel Lodge she made a special shade of blue, and she was so insistent that the painters mix the shade exactly as she wanted it that they dubbed it "Mary Jane Blue. — Virginia L. Grattan

In our 20s, women in my generation, we all wanted to be Laurie Anderson. — Sandra Tsing Loh

Ahh, my heart fell down when I began to see dead buffalo scattered all over our beautiful country, killed and skinned, and left to rot by white men, many, many hundreds of buffalo ... Our hearts were like stones. And yet nobody believed, even then, that the white man could kill all the buffalo. Since the beginning of things there had always been so many! — Pretty Shield

He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures," said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman says and he will give you gold. — Terry Pratchett

Fuck it. I am who I am. Nobody's perfect. — Kim Holden

The Hole and the Thread A CERTAIN great Sufi was asked about the role and status of some of his predecessors. He said: 'To erect a small building you may first have to excavate a large hole. 'To make a large carpet you may have to start with a single thread. 'When you can see the building or the carpet, your question is answered. 'But when your question is about the hole in the ground and the thread in the hand, you can only be answered in this parable.' * * * — Idries Shah

All anyone can do is make decisions based on the purest of intents. After that, we just have to let go and hope fate finds its way. — Ellie Wade

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. — Jimmy Wales

Guilt reminds me of a stray cat. You chase it away and yet, it comes back when you least expect it. If you let yourself feel pity for it and feed the thing, it parks its ugly, puny, lonely-for-attention butt on your doormat and won't go away. Scat kitty cat, scat. I don't need you sitting around here like that. — Lisa Schroeder

I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful enough to take the weight off his heart, that heaviness that dragged him down, into the beyond, making him yearn to be at peace. — Banana Yoshimoto

Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action ... Magic is desire made real. — Deborah Harkness

I am my best self when I have super-short hair. That's when I feel most like me and most confident. — Halle Berry