Seider Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to like a man to respect him. — Janny Wurts

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated. — Audrey Niffenegger

I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. "Which is all very well," she said bitterly, "but the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is 'How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hall'. — Helene Hanff

Even in the midst of my darkness, through a storm of pain, Lyric brings me calm. — Jessica Sorensen

I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in. — Tennessee Williams

Fashion fades, only style remains the same. — Coco Chanel

Conscience is an instinct to pass judgment upon ourselves in accordance with moral laws. — Immanuel Kant

For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose. — Blaise Pascal

This is the unmistakable teaching of the Gita. He who gives up action falls. He who gives up only the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result. In regard to every action one must know the result that is expected to follow, the means thereto, and the capacity for it. He, who, being thus equipped, is without desire for the result and is yet wholly engrossed in the due fulfillment of the task before him is said to have renounced the fruits of his action. — Mahatma Gandhi

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be. — Alan Alda

Ivy! It's a natural disaster! You have to be there! — Annie Barrows

In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress," he began, "you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward." Bunyan's muckraker, he suggested, "typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to resist it. — J.D. Vance

Jack," she said, "I just spoke to our son." "Mr. Harding to see Ron Jennings. — Mitch Albom

Threshold is where the madness ends and the magic begins. — Kamal Ravikant