Starkers On This Side Quotes & Sayings

We wanted something in which to believe, as many people on Earth once believed in demons, or in sunken lost continents, in a face on Mars, crop circles, visitations from being on other planets, or God, Buddha, Christ, Allah, and so on. The fact that all of the above were total nonsense didn't change the desire to believe that there was Something Else out there, something that could make sense of chaotic lives and events. — Stephen Leigh

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them. — Ruby Rose

Aware of how often she hides her good qualities because she is afraid of being misunderstood or mocked, she accuses herself of being uncharitable, supercilious, — Francine Prose

Some of us are so terribly broken. — Vannary Rang

Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense. — Donald J. Boudreaux

And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace. — Benedict Of Nursia

I guess the fact that they made something they could be proud of is more important than any prize ever could be. I can understand that. The beauty of the clothing itself is in the eye of the beholder. Judging art on a point system in the first place seems totally ridiculous! But since I grew up in such a competitive, point-awarding world, I wanted the grand prize more than anything. I wanted to be number one and get all the glory. Glory, huh ... how stupid! — Ai Yazawa

I love an arcade. I love a boardwalk game. But I also love a rollercoaster. Though I think the rollercoaster love comes from the fact that it took a really long time for me to reach the height requirement, so I promised myself very early on that when I reach that, I will not take it for granted. — Melissa Rauch

Every time you see a problem and walk away from it, you set a new standard. — Ilona Andrews

Privately, I felt that living in that privileged environment, where her emotions ran unchecked, had made her oversensitive and unstable. — Minae Mizumura

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute ... that gives meaning to our lives. — Tony Robbins

I put confidence in the American people, in their ability to sort through what is fair and what is unfair, what is ugly and what is unugly. — George H. W. Bush

The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led. — Terry Pratchett

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'. — Frances Hodgson Burnett