Symbolization Defense Quotes & Sayings

How do we change the world? Change the story. — Charles Eisenstein

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,
to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well. — Leigh Hunt

She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities
this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what was in front of me. On the other hand, I had no sense of direction or destiny. — Laurie Colwin

If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down. — Jack Lemmon

We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness. It's as if we were working together on the same statue, cutting it out of each other's misery. But I don't even know the design. — Graham Greene

After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived. — Dave Grohl

If I couldn't act, I'd really love to try music. — Ryan Eggold

Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat ... — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection. — Rainbow Rowell

Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me. — Francois Fenelon

If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that! — Tom Hardy

I work my way through the rest of my dates, but I'm only there in body. The boys usually give up after the first hour; it's difficult to have a conversation all by yourself. My ratings plummet, but at least my air-time is minimal now, I'm not offering much in the way of entertainment these days. — Siobhan Davis

This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube and titrate it, and come up with all the answers to the problems of the human race. — Frank M. Robinson

Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker. — Britta Phillips