Shahirah Elaiza Quotes & Sayings

Did you read where the great-grandson of Nathan Hale got married this weekend? Give me liberty or give me death. That's what the groom will be saying in about one month. — J.R. Moehringer

the faint smell of corruption clung to it like a woman's perfume. — George R R Martin

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate. — Ludwig Feuerbach

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white. — John Francis Dodge

I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit. — Jane Pauley

Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different. — Jerry Pournelle

If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees. — Robert Motherwell

Ay, to the proof, as mountains are for winds, that shakes not, though they blow perpetually. — William Shakespeare

I cleanse, tone and moisturize twice a day. I exfoliate once a week and carry makeup wipes in the car for freshening up. — Sasha Jackson

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly. — Samuel Johnson

It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind — Herrick Johnson

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them
l — Arthur Schopenhauer

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them — Iyanla Vanzant

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts. — Richard Prince

Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment about a much older Russian political dissident.That's the human part of being human: feeling those moments. — David Bezmozgis