Shelvia Johnson Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes with success comes some crazy that goes along with it. — Robert Knepper

There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of world where nothing happens, where really nothing happens, so you become a different person after hearing eight minutes of exactly the same thing. Yes, I hear music all the time in which one idea is strung together to another idea, and I feel that such music is non-narrative. — Missy Mazzoli

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion. — Heraclitus

How did this man with the power to terrify me also become the one person who truly makes me feel safe? — Lilah Pace

I just don't want to see you risk everything for a man who may never want the same things. — Christina Lauren

If I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart. Even if I were young and good-looking, I doubt whether I could please myself. As it is I am likely to be taken bodily to heaven, as to become any man's wife. — Anthony Trollope

I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted. — Maya Angelou

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving. — Shane Claiborne

In seeking him they find him, and in finding they will praise him. — Augustine Of Hippo

Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don't apply some of the
medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying. — T.D. Jakes