Statman Quotes & Sayings

Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type. — Dean Cain

A life is similar to a book. Some chapters are boring,a few emotional, a handful memorable,others saddening,one or two thoughtful and many full of smiles. — Elizabeth Adeniyi

You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it. — Junot Diaz

Grant that I might seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand. — Alisa Statman

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about in the same way. It's more a sexist stereotype than a powerful stereotype. — Anna Wintour

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct. — Boris Sidis

Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way. — Malcolm Forbes

I'd volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free. — Mohammad Hatta

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from ... political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities. — Robert H. Jackson

Worrying is betting against yourself. — Terence McKenna

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. — Nina Bawden

The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope. — H.P. Lovecraft

And if someone dies by my hand, I won't lie to myself by believing I'm better than that. — Quoleena Sbrocca

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand. — Justin Trudeau