Suplicando Quotes & Sayings

If other people do not understand our behavior - so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to "explain," which usually implies that the explanation be "understood," i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself - to his reason and his conscience - and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation. — Erich Fromm

I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way. — Amanda Beard

I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be. — Kaley Cuoco

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful. — Saffron Burrows

fortune favors action. — Sophia Amoruso

We win because we play together as a team. — John Havlicek

The workspace fell somewhere between a gerbil cage and a prison cell on the space-and-comfort scale. — John A. Heldt

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. — Camille Claudel

My favorite drink is water - the bland one: Evian. I stick with that. I celebrate in the evening sometimes with Perrier. That's why I love coming to California. They're always talking to you about bottled water. — George Foreman

Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it - freedom, not reason - to pursue his plans for the future. — Thomas Ligotti

That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Aetherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees ... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part ... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood ... All partial Evil, universal Good ... — Alexander Pope

There is an unequivocal question in every layer of a dawn's beautiful rise that asks: "What are you going to do with this one glorious day? — Melanie Gow

I am free and that's why I am lost — Franz Kafka

But, Dad ... " She hesitated. "It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that."
Sol managed a smile. "No parent would refuse that, Rachel. — Dan Simmons

My body burns where he doesn't touch, and burns where he does. — Nicola Yoon