Subjection Def Quotes & Sayings

It is a fact universally acknowledged that no sane person can really fall in love in one night. At best, it is an obsession. A compeling feeling that this person, this one, out of all the millions of others, is the answer to all of your problems. At worst, it is misplaced horn. — Lucy Robinson

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. — Ralph Ellison

I always have a plan, but it's like the plan for a journey. Once you're on the road, you change things. If nothing changes, if you end up with something that's just as you planned it, then you haven't created art. — Ernesto Neto

Balance is of the essence,' she said. 'That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience. — Jo Nesbo

If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted. — Russ Feingold

FREEDOM IS THE FRAGILE NECK of a daffodil, after the longest of winters. — Jodi Picoult

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. — Daisaku Ikeda

The bottom fell out of my stomach. It was like putting a foot wrong on a frozen creek, the crack of ice, and sudden drop, the knowledge that there was nothing beneath but dark water. — Leigh Bardugo

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all. — Deb Caletti

I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait. — Richard Avedon

Our ancient sources of wisdom call on human beings to rise to their highest capacity and behave in extraordinarily open and generous ways to one another, under difficult circumstances to transcend differences and create understanding across all barriers of convention and fear. This wisdom is fragile as our environment is fragile, threatened by an overwhelming material culture. I believe in a spiritual ecology. In today's world, Judaism and Tibetan Buddhism and other wisdom traditions are endangered species. — Rodger Kamenetz

A culture of dialogue is breaking down and giving way to a culture of threats and impunity, you can see the strategy already ... and what you have is essentially the threat of imprisonment in order to control people better. — Sophal Ear

Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value. — Valerie Estelle Frankel

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people. — Marvin Hamlisch

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. — Mark Haddon