Sen Engebritson Alexandria Quotes & Sayings

I'll tell you a secret about fear: it's an absolutist. With fear, it's all or nothing. Either, like any bullying tyrant, it rules your life with stupid blinding omnipotence, or else you overthrow it, and its power vanishes in a puff of smoke. And another secret: the revolution against fear, the engendering of that tawdry despot's fall, has more or less nothing to do with 'courage'. It is driven by something much more straightforward: the simple need to get on with your life. — Salman Rushdie

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. — Tom Stoppard

I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that! — Alanis Morissette

I have got a reputation to protect ... — Ian McLeod

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are solidified and perfected. Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to extreme old age. — Henry David Thoreau

Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. — Carolyn Byers Ruch

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate — Dennis Prager

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence. — Elizabeth Kostova

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life. — Thomas Mann