Sharisa Mckenzie Quotes & Sayings

if a person cannot master the power of self-discipline, it is best not to try to get rich. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

As above in consciousness, so below in matter — Michael Sharp

Setbacks allow us to take a step back and look at the view from a whole. — Brittany Burgunder

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You're not pretty, and you'll never be pretty. But, it doesn't matter. You have something much better. You have style. — Iris Apfel

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata
of creatures that worked like machines
would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free. — C.S. Lewis

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. — Nora Ephron

I like smoking pot, but I'm not the kind of guy who smokes every day. — Etgar Keret

People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards. — Manisha Koirala

The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy his temporary home even while delivering it from its reigning ideology. — Chris Matthews

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. — Sharon Olds

In a funny way it's almost fun, having everything be so fucked up and managing to adjust. I guess you might say I'm proud. Proud of me, proud of my friends for managing to deal with this thing so well. For most people this would be the end of the world. They'd panic, their friends would panic. Things would get trampled in the stampede. But we've kept our heads, made the necessary allowances, ad can just ride this thing out.

I'm pretty much just putting in time waiting for this cloud to blow over. Waiting for something to come along to make some sense out of all this. Killing time, waiting for some sort of cavalry to come over the hill. There's really not an awful lot I can do but wait. As long as there's no panic, we can hold out for damn near forever. — Mark Vonnegut

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it? — Alex Kapranos

The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor. — Rick Smolan

The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible. — Frank Herbert