Secondate Quotes & Sayings

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage — Charles De Secondate

Why I Am Happy
Now has come, an easy time. I let it
roll. There is a lake somewhere
so blue and far nobody owns it.
A wind comes by and a willow listens
gracefully.
I hear all this, every summer. I laugh
and cry for every turn of the world,
its terribly cold, innocent spin.
That lake stays blue and free; it goes
on and on.
And I know where it is. — William Stafford

The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and this can be terrifying. I know, because I was a daughter of a mother with a changeable temperament. — Ayelet Waldman

The truth is that I can't put down my pen: I think I'm going to have the Nausea and I feel as though I'm delaying it while writing. So I write whatever comes into my mind. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. — Brian Eno

Vanity is but the surface. — Blaise Pascal

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression. — J. Golden Kimball

Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans. — Patina Miller

I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble. — John Carpenter

What then are our experiences? Much more that which we put into them than that which they already contain! Or must we go so far as to say: in themselves they contain nothing? To experience is to invent — Friedrich Nietzsche

Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God. — Elizabeth George

Remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up. — Kemmons Wilson

Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be. — Bryant McGill