Stryffe Quotes & Sayings

We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand. — Paul Robeson

Negative identity is a phenomenon whereby you define yourself by what you are not. This has enormous advantages, especially in terms of the hardening of psychological boundaries and the fortification of the ego: one can mobilize a great deal of energy on this basis and the new nation [the US] certainly did ... The downside ... is that this way of generating an identity for yourself can never tell you who you actually are, in the affirmative sense. It leaves, in short, an emptiness at the center, such that you always have to be in opposition to something, or even at war with someone or something, in order to feel real. — Morris Berman

I'd convinced myself it would have been different if he'd been as ugly on the outside as he was on the inside, but he wasn't. He was cruel beauty, a sculpture, a god, and I couldn't tear my eyes from him. I'd seen his expression soften in the dungeon with the whip. I'd do anything to have him look at me like that again, no matter how insane he was. — Kitty Thomas

It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it. — Jessica Lange

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves. — Karen Maezen Miller

And it appears as though she's afraid I'll alter her canvas if she allows me too close. — Colleen Hoover

As the survivors returned to Confederate lines, Lee met them and sobbed, "It's all my fault this time."158 It was.159 — Edward H. Bonekemper III

They come to me, and I receive them as the meat they are. — Dean Koontz

Get this and get gone. — Kristen Ashley