Sian Quotes & Sayings

The 'Lord's Prayer' is totally of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them. — Aziz Ansari

Absinthe now, absent never — Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana

I want people to feel conflicted. I want them to feel for characters they started out hating. I want to start conversations about what it means to be a parent. About the responsibility we bear to ourselves and to each other. — Sian Heder

Emerald [Cunard] alleged that Mrs Ronnie instructed her chef to inflate the quails to be served at dinner with a bicycle pump. — Sian Evans

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them. — Marilynne Robinson

To be curious about a thing you have to find something surprising in it, and I'm afraid that nothing surprises me any more. — Sian Busby

But I wasn't done," she pouted, no longer hungry for anything but him.
"Yes, you were."
"Yes, sir."
"Lay down on your back."
"Very yes, sir. — Tiffany Reisz

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes — Charles Francis Richter

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet. — Gene Perret

This world today makes one by the day a recluse — Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana

Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing. — Charles Halford

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws. — Edward Coke

Wicked Abyss, page 279, Lila, Princess Calliope of Sylvan to Abyssian "Sian" Infernas, King of Pandemonia

"There's a face to the violence you love so much, a cost that the Morior never have to pay. Why wouldn't you love war? You never feel the toll like the rest of us. — Kresley Cole

Don't worry about Sian," Louisa said, "things will get better."
"What, she'll stop hitting me?"
"No, but you'll stop bruising so easily. — Dylan Perry

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian. — Agnes Smedley

love life and life will love you, love yourself and you shall feel loved. — Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana

We're watching your mate," Sian said. "Well done. She's horrifyingly lovely. — Kresley Cole

I do love through trial and error, in fact I confess I would die for this beastly terror — Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana

merely changing how a math problem is presented on a page can change how your brain goes about solving it, — Sian Beilock

My mascara a mess, harsh words for your princess
Boy, you and your promises
If your goal was to love, you scored an epic miss
Now you'll just have memories — Sian Reynolds

targets destroyed, the training, the discipline, the hours of study, all led to this moment. This cold, bright afternoon in January 2061 marked the true beginning. A clear mind and cool blood. The apprentice knew these elements were as vital as skill, as wind direction, humiture, and speed. Under the cool blood lived an eagerness ruthlessly suppressed. The mentor had arranged all. Efficiently, and with an attention to detail that was also vital. The room in the clean, middle-class hotel — J.D. Robb

When a person does aggravate like a plaguing itch, acceptance is no matter. — Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana

Love is indeed its own hallucinogenic affecting the mind, heart and mood — Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana

I hear my father; I need never fear.
I hear my mother; I shall never be lonely, or want for love.
When I am hungry it is they who provide for me; when I am in dismay, it is they who fill me with comfort.
When I am astonished or bewildered, it is they who make the weak ground firm beneath my soul: it is in them that I put my trust.
When I am sick it is they who send for the doctor; when I am well and happy, it is in their eyes that I know best that I am loved; and it is towards the shining of their smiles that I lift up my heart and in their laughter that I know my best delight.
I hear my father and my mother and they are my giants, my king and my queen, beside whom there are not others so wise or worthy or honorable or brave or beautiful in this world.
I need never fear: nor ever shall I lack for loving-kindness. — James Agee

Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers? — Colleen Hoover

Look - you upset Cho when you said you were going to meet me, so she tried to make you jealous. It was her way of trying to find out how much you liked her." "Is that what she was doing?" said Harry as Ron dropped onto the bench opposite them and pulled every dish within reach toward himself. "Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?" "Girls don't often ask questions like that," said Hermione. — J.K. Rowling

I think a lot of women feel like they have to choose between making movies or making a family. — Sian Heder

What's first?" He took another swig.
"I don't know. You're the one fucking this chicken. I'm just holding it's wings. — J.L. Langley

I had too much power, I thought. I might consume him out of my own curiosity simply because I could. I could stay or go. He could not. He had too much power, I thought. He could reject me. He could break me in two. — Rebecca Walker

Look out for each other. I think the more we support each other as a community, the more successful we will be. I'm a part of Film Fatales, a collective of women directors who meet to share advice and provide support for each other's projects. I think the more we can build an old girls' network to rival the old boys' network, the better off we will be. — Sian Heder

The sacred words penetrate the heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't deny that impulse drew us together, but while physical gratification began and ended it for you, in making love, dumbo here - - ' she jerked a thumb at her chest ' - was also demonstrating that she cared.'
His tongue moistened his lips. 'You're very up-front, aren't you?'
'You mean none of your other rejects have ever looked you in the eye and complained?' Sian queried. She might have made things easy last night, but she refused to make anything easy for him now. 'I suppose you'd prefer it if I shrugged my shoulders, muttered something about it being nice while it lasted, and filed the experience away under lessons learned? Well, sorry, but for me, and for most women if they're honest, going to bed with someone is a darn sight more complicated than that! — Elizabeth Oldfield