Shay Van Buren Quotes & Sayings

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The village of Gretna Green lay in the county of Dumfriesshire, just north of the border between England and Scotland. In defiance of the strict marriage laws of England, hundreds of couples had traveled the coaching road from London, through Carlisle, to Gretna Green. They came on foot, by carriage or horseback, seeking an asylum, where they could say their marriage vows and return to England as man and wife. — Lisa Kleypas

Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them. — Lenny Kravitz

If I've already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist. — Tim Tebow

I would spend the rest of my life turning to speak to her. — Don DeLillo

Places of genius challenge us. They are difficult. They do not earn their place in history with ethnic restaurants or street festivals, but by provoking us, making demands of us. Crazy, unrealistic, beautiful demands. — Eric Weiner

But I ... I don't want to do something to you that you don't at least at some level want me to do. — Laurelin Paige

I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie. — Alexis Arquette

Why do they call it the Catholic Church? Because if they called it the Pedophiles Club, nobody would join. — Mike Golden

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature. — Denis Diderot

After receiving the customary answer that the government was performing superbly, I generally asked the person how they arrived at this conclusion. They often cited the construction of schools and clinics, solar panels and paved roads as signs of progress. Mind you, the majority of this infrastructure was paid for and coordinated by the United States and other NATO countries. Most were built by U.S. and other Coalition Forces, not the Afghan government, and not the Afghan citizens. The typical Afghan citizen did not realize this however. Most were under the impression that their own government had planned, funded and overseen these projects. None ever stopped to think about how their government had miraculously come up with the billions of dollars necessary to complete these developments. — Jennifer Dunham