Sylphlike Lady Quotes & Sayings

For thou hast made a very fiend of me, and I have hell within. — Aphra Behn

Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation. — Yara Shahidi

Being a martyr is highly overrated. — Patricia Briggs

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is. — Henry Ford

Insults from a sage are better than praises from a fool. — Matshona Dhliwayo

the descent was going to be more difficult than the ascent. — Jeffrey Archer

The record of anarchist ideas, and even more, of the inspiring struggles of people who have sought to liberate themselves from oppression and domination, must be treasured and preserved, not as means of freezing thought and conception in some new mold but as basis for understanding of the social reality and committed work to change it. There is no reason to suppose that history is at an end, that the current structures of authority and domination are graven in stone. It would also be great error to underestimate the power of social forces that will fight to maintain power and privilege. — Noam Chomsky

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless — Percy Bysshe Shelley

from The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Elizabeth: Sometimes there are passages . . . which rather puzzle me.
Browning: Oh, Sordello! I've done my best to forget it. However . . ( His smile fades. He mutters.) Extraordinary. . .But - but a passage torn from context . . .
Elizabeth: Well?
Browning: Well, Miss Barrett - when that passage was written only God and Robert Browning understood it. Now only God understands it. — Rudolf Besier

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States. — James A. Garfield

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality. — Jodi Picoult

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit. — Louie Giglio