Struggling Through Relationship Quotes & Sayings

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. — Camille Paglia

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though. — Gary Cole

When she says 'I've never done this before she just means with you — Josh Stern

I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual communication between the two species. — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Look at me,' said Miss Havisham. 'You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born? — Charles Dickens

What is God doing in my life? In the mornings, I wake to find that he has traced the world in silver. Every blade of grass. Each pumpkin on the porch. In the afternoons, I find him washing these fields with the mellow sunlight of autumn. He has gilded every rail in the fence and the sheet metal roof of the old red barn. He has transformed familiar trees into something otherworldly. — Christie Purifoy

I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be in. — Eliza Doolittle

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy. — Neal Stephenson

We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us. — Lauren Oliver

When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings./And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone. — Amiri Baraka

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me. — David B. Coe

I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that. — Bea Arthur