Shuang Ma Quotes & Sayings

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion. — A.E. Samaan

But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. — Patricia Marx

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

He kills her in her own humor. — William Shakespeare

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t. — Joyce Meyer

Of course, the books you read early, before 20, and love passionately, they get to you. Even if later on you can't read them again. You were shaped by certain books. All of us that read a lot, we're partly book-manufactured. It's really hard to talk about the influence of such books on you because it goes so deep. It's like, what was your father's influence on you, what was your mother's influence. How can you say? You grew up with it. So, you will find I dodge all questions about favorite books and so on. What does it matter what I like? — Ursula K. Le Guin

I for one will never doubt that a desire to see 'justice in this world' lay at the heart of all his actions. — Kazuo Ishiguro

The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

By the tits of Holy Agnes — Hilary Mantel

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color. — Charles Darwin

Hold on to 16 as long as you can. changes coming round real soon, make us women and men. — John Mellencamp

I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art. — Cy Twombly

Sparrows soar on high; they are light and agile. They fly through the clouds unafraid and travel where the skeleton could never go. That is strength on little wings. And they fly about inside the tower, waiting for the sun to go down so they can open the windows and escape out into the night sky." "And what do they do when they come out?" "They rain tiny blessings down on the Jews of Prague while we all are asleep. They shine light in the darkness. — Kristy Cambron