Shrivelling Lines Quotes & Sayings

Let the demand of life, lead you into the abundant supplies of life — Sunday Adelaja

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it! — Mao Zedong

When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better. — Stephen Richards

Haun! Work your progress! Hold to! Now! Win out, ye divil ye! — James Joyce

More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery. — John W. Gardner

Choosing is the act of living with purpose. — Victoria Van Tiem

I like that my body is in shape and toned, and isn't too muscular. I feel I still have a woman's physique. — Alicia Sacramone

Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. — L. David Marquet

But this time it was her other self I saw, not the dark fairy of want but a middle-aged woman, like the woman I am now, plain, chastened, mortal. The — Jan Ellison

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ...
Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated. — Terry Pratchett

You have to have approached a place from all four cardinal points if you want to take it in, and what's more, you also have to have left it from all these points. Otherwise it will quite unexpectedly cross your path three or four times before you are prepared to discover it. One stage further, and you seek it out, you orient your-self by it. The same thing with houses. It is only after having crept along a series of them in search of a very specific one that you come to learn what they contain. From the arches of gates, on the frames of house doors, in letters of varying size, black, blue, yellow, red, in the shape of arrows or in the image of boots or freshly-ironed laundry or a word stoop or a stairway's solid landing, the life leaps out at you, combative, determined, mute. You have to have traveled the streets by streetcar to realize how this running battle con-tinues up along the various stories and finally reaches its decisive pitch on the roofs. — Walter Benjamin

No nation was ever ruined by trade. — Benjamin Franklin

While one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed lives of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor. — Cormac McCarthy

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand? — Pauly Shore