Symkoviak Quotes & Sayings

[ ... ][I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing. — Anne Bishop

In conclusion, I would like to point out the grave risk authorities are taking by burying the Carrie White affair under the bureaucratic mat - and I am speaking specifically of the so-called White Commission. The desire among politicians to regard TK as a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon seems very strong, and while this may be understandable it is not acceptable. The possibility of a recurrence, genetically speaking, is 99 per cent. It's time we planned now for what may be ... — Stephen King

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. — Helen Garner

Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes. — Phoebe Philo

Siddhartha had one single goal before him -- to become empty, empty of thirst, empty of desire, empty of dreams, empty of joy and sorrow. To die away from himself, no longer to be "I," to find the peace of an empty heart, to be open to wonder within an egoless mind -- that was his goal. When every bit of ego was overcome and dead, when in his heart all cravings and compulsions had been stilled, then the ultimate must awaken, that innermost essence in one's being that is no longer ego, the great mystery. — Hermann Hesse

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. — Robert Morgan

Don't force me to draw my own conclusions. I do have a very big pencil. — Terry Pratchett

When people have something proven to them, and they see that it really benefits them, they don't have to be looking for a change or be at rock bottom. When they see something proven that is of benefit to them, they'll turn around 180 degrees and never look back. — Andy Andrews

Telling the truth can be a dirty job. — Francesca Marciano

To leap into it and hold on, connecting everything, — Mary Oliver

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men. — Christie Hefner

A masterpiece ... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. — Gertrude Stein

The cops watched me and the Georges and the other foreigners who worked the streets, and they knew exactly what we were doing. They reasoned, truly enough, that we caused no violent harm, and we were good for business in the black market that brought them bribes and other benefits. They took their cut from the drug and currency dealers. They left us alone. They left me alone. — Gregory David Roberts