Sofia Franklyn Quotes & Sayings

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible. — Toni Cade Bambara

Man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination. — Arthur Koestler

just as the Monroe Doctrine gave the same rights to the USA in South America. — Ken Follett

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late. — Jhumpa Lahiri

When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don't contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they're not contradicting what you've asked for. Act as if you are receiving it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expectation. Make room to receive your desires, and as you do, you are sending out that powerful signal of expectation.

— Rhonda Byrne

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation. — Raul Julia

Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog. — Leonard Cohen

I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics. — Oswald Mosley

I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating. — Ryan Sheckler

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. — Kenneth Koch

The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other. — Maria Montessori

No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy. — Tobsha Learner

I exist in the eye of the storm, the calm in the centre of a perpetual hurricane of cars and lorries heading for the M6, the north and Scotland, or south to Penzance and Land's End. I sometimes wonder if they don't go on the motorway at all, that I hear the same vehicles circling endlessly, a kind of multiple Flying Dutchman, doomed to travel for ever. I don't regret for one minute that I am no longer one of them. — Clare Morrall

I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages. — Nick Mancuso

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing