Sidwell Materials Quotes & Sayings

In interactions with others, instead of trying to be right, why don't we try being kind? — Wayne Dyer

No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it triumphed in the field, and is now assumed to be established. If it really be established, the number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave. — Lysander Spooner

The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality — Dallin H. Oaks

When you're playing a character, I think it's always better not to judge that character. — Heather Graham

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd. — John Milton

Be the hero of hearts; learn to say I'm sorry. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them. — Alice Thomas Ellis

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine. — Henry Rollins

To live and love is a wonderful thing. — Jon Jones

God made man because He loves stories — Yiddish Proverb

anything that was aware of its actions was capable of making choices about them. — Karen Traviss