Smartening Quotes & Sayings

Choosing work is an interesting thing. It's a balance between what's available and what you've always got in the back of your mind - that awful, strange thing that seems to have to exist in this industry, of what will give you "exposure." — Guy Pearce

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. — Anne Rice

A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust, dampens the fervor of its citizens and mocks their loyalty. — Russell B. Long

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters. — Kailash Satyarthi

Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to. — Dennis Lehane

Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then. — Laura Moriarty

Here is where I find my strength, Catherine. Right here in your arms. — Marsha Canham

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for. — Frances Moore Lappe

While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office. — Aaron Sorkin

Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you. — Mary Oliver

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character. — Andrew Coyle Bradley

Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up. — Marie Forleo

My only mission became to save her. I wanted to be the very person I grew up hating. I wanted to be her hero. — B.B. Reid