Top Schwarzenegger Movie Quotes & Sayings

I've never understood the appeal of anything referred to as 'hash. — J.D. Robb

Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you. — Colson Whitehead

The muse on my shoulder is very sensitive and does not abide claptrap of any kind ... Only when I am totally immersed ... absorbed in work ... does she allow something magical to happen and I become aware of a faint heartbeat and gentle breath emanating from my brush. — Catherine Stock

What do we want from our mothers when we are children? Complete submission. Oh, it's very nice and rational and respectable to say that a woman has every right to her life, to her ambitions, to her needs, and so on--it's what I've always demanded myself--but as a child, no, the truth is it's a war of attrition, rationality doesn't come into it, not one bit, all you want from your mother is that she once and for all admit that she is your mother and only your mother, and that her battle with the rest of life is over. She has to lay down arms and come to you. And if she doesn't do it, then it's really a war, and it was a war between my mother and me. Only as an adult did I come to truly admire her--especially in the last, painful years of her life--for all that she had done to claw some space in this world for herself. — Zadie Smith

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity. — Daisaku Ikeda

Don't wait for the opportunity, create it. — Debasish Mridha

Life is simple when you embrace its complexities. — David R. Bernstein

At first it seems
as if begoing follows becoming.
But look even closer
and you will see
that there are only
flashes of lightning
illuminating the empty sky. — Adyashanti