Segaris Quotes & Sayings

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. — John Mayer

Shame makes self-acceptance and self-love impossible. — Bell Hooks

Confessing I didn't, I scribbled the directions on the notepad I always kept by the phone. I hung up and my feet were already on the floor as adrenaline hit my nerves like espresso. The house was quiet. I grabbed my black medical bag, scuffed and worn from years of use. The — Patricia Cornwell

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land. — Oscar Wilde

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. — John Dewey

I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years. — Deborah Kass

New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.' — Bill Dedman

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man! — Katherine Cecil Thurston

I tried to lift the book in a kind of salute, but it was way too heavy for that. In fact,when I got back up to my room and tossed it on the bed,the mattress creaked in protest. — Rachel Hawkins

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery. — Marion Cotillard

The problem with memories is they get more valuable with time,
and the places we keep them get weaker with age. — Michael Xavier

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous. — Robert Shea

I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us. — Henry David Thoreau

The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6 — Seneca.