Senette Schoenberg Quotes & Sayings

There was a certain luxury to charity that she could not identify with and did not have. To take "charity" for granted, to revel in this charity towards people whom one did not know - perhaps it came from having had a yesterday and having today and expecting to have tomorrow. She envied them this ... Ifemelu wanted, suddenly and desperately, to be from the country of people who gave and not those who received, to be one of those who had and could therefore bask in the grace of having given. To be among those who could afford copious pity and empathy. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Like tonight, when everyone dressed as zombies, and you wore that. I mean, don't you want to be like everyone else?" "Not particularly," I said, willing her to finally understand how much I had changed, and how very little she knew about me. — Robyn Schneider

It is a terrifying thing when the animals laugh at the hunter. Take a tip from Harlequin and the Joker. If you imitate a fool well, you are not likely to be fooled by others. To be it bluntly, albeit unorginally: A fool who knows he is a fool is indeed a wise man. — Anton Szandor LaVey

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now. — Cameron Diaz

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks. — Francesca Annis

We can't choose who we fall in love with....but we can choose when to walk away.. — Unknown

Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled. — Freya Stark

Surprisingly now, over a half a century later, time symmetric approaches to electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology might be consonant with the kind of eschatology that a theist such as Pannenberg supports. — Robert John Russell

If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat. — Nathan Myhrvold