Selbie Drummond Quotes & Sayings

You can die anyplace. They've never managed to regulate that. — Robert A. Heinlein

At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe becomes ever more aware that language refers to his surroundings, and his wish to master it consciously becomes also greater.Subconsciously and unaided, he strains himself to learn, and this effort makes his success all the more astonishing. — Maria Montessori

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate. — Sonam Kapoor

People have faces. [ ... ] Spirits don't have faces. And yet we recognise them. We know who is who. Spirits don't have eyes or mouths or ears either. And yet they can see and speak and hear. [ ... ] The spirits are all around us. [ ... ] They're right here, but we can't see them. — Henning Mankell

The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out. — Charlie Kaufman

In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard. — McKayla Maroney

That's how we often react when grace comes at us. It's awkward. God offers us something that's too good to be true - unearned, unmerited, total forgiveness - and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back. — Judah Smith

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out. — Bob Woodward

Tell me, how do you cope so calmly
With crazy youth's arrogant way?
Indeed, youth would be insufferable,
Had I myself not also been insufferable. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories. — Dorothy Parker

I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before. — Zayn Malik

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone. — David Baldacci

When they're together, the world could fall apart around them and they'd never notice or care as long as they have each other.
About Alex and Brittany. — Simone Elkeles

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. — L. Frank Baum