Tr2410a Quotes & Sayings

For most people, the price for security is personal freedom. And without freedom, many people spend their lives working for money, rather than living out to their dreams — Robert Kiyosaki

I mean that certain fictions, chiefly Conan Doyle, Stevenson, but many others also, laid out a template that was more powerful than any local documentary account - the presences that they created, or "figures" if you prefer it, like Rabbi Loew's Golem, became too much and too fast to be contained within the conventional limits of that fiction. They got out into the stream of time, the ether; they escaped into the labyrinth. They achieved an independent existence.
The writers were mediums; they articulated, they gave a shape to some pattern of energy that was already present. They got in on the curve of time, so that by writing, by holding off the inhibiting reflex of the rational mind, they were able to propose a text that was prophetic. — Iain Sinclair

...life is too short to live without the things you want, to not fight for the things you love... — Natalie Ward

Today, women in general are more likely to do housework than men - cooking and cleaning. But why is that? Is it because women are born with a cooking gene or because over years they have been socialized to see cooking as their role? I was going to say that perhaps women are born with a cooking gene until I remembered that the majority of famous cooks in the world - who are given the fancy title of "chef" - are men. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

With organization comes empowerment. — Lynda Peterson

Why do we make it all seem like a crisis, over and over again? Why do we worry it all to death, like dogs with socks or chew-toys? 'Look at it this way ... In a hundred years? - All new people. — Anne Lamott

Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could. — Nenia Campbell

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way. — Bill Bryson

God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do. — John Ruskin

Our parts now
which perforce we must play
are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love. — Garth Nix

I fell. I got up. I fell again. I got up again. Even when I fell on my face, I was still falling forward. — Cathrine Ann

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women. — Bob Hoskins

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had. — Deb Caletti

They have stopped my destiny,
as I have lost one that I love,
I must say it: I will die
because I have nobody now.
But what is done is done,
and you cannot change that. — Emma Iadanza