Sirelle Spivak Quotes & Sayings

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. — Clarence Darrow

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight. — Amos Ferguson

When I was young and had no sense
In far-off Mandalay
I lost my heart to a Burmese girl
As lovely as the day.
Her skin was gold, her hair was jet,
her teeth were ivory;
I said, "For twenty silver pieces,
Maiden, sleep with me."
She looked at me, so pure, so sad,
The loveliest thing alive,
And in her lisping, virgin voice,
Stood out for twenty-five. — George Orwell

I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and I'm sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it; and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only.. — Henry David Thoreau

Mark Watney, out of Mars. — James S.A. Corey

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information. — Peter Arnett

Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out. — Britney Spears

One may not be able to trade in gratitude as a currency, but gratitude is the currency of true wealth. - L. R. W. Lee — L.R.W. Lee

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark? — G.K. Chesterton

It is great filming in London. It's difficult, but it looks good. It has its own identity. — Sean Bean

Gravity is the root of lightness; — Lao-Tzu