Sedia Stokke Quotes & Sayings

Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Here is joy and neglect. A little mescal. A little jacking off, but mostly just work. - This is how I live, I am thinking. — Patti Smith

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story. — Caitlin Flanagan

...she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams. — Karleen Koen

Remember: a clever woman never lets a man know how cleaver she is — Lesley Downer

The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests. And that is the reason of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives. — Woodrow Wilson

Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more. — Dumitru Tepeneag