Turchaninova Quotes & Sayings

Being selfless isn't bad. It is a very rare quality. — M.B. Mohan

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them. — Don Cheadle

I hate nickels; they're quarter impersonators. — Gary Gulman

I've known who I am as an artist for a long time; 'Idol' has shown me what I'm capable of. I know it's all possible for me now. I can go in any direction I want. I'm forever grateful to them. — Crystal Bowersox

History marches to the drum of a clear idea. — W. H. Auden

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. — Robertson Davies

Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for days every month (or every day for every month); women with the severe kind can have hardly any pain at all, like me. — Rose George

I wait in front of the stadium, scrolling through Facebook on my cell phone. I swear if one more of my high school friends posts pictures of their lunch, kids, or dogs, I'm going on a spree reporting everyone as spam. — Aly Martinez

[We should be] determined ... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government ... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness. — Thomas Jefferson

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work. — Jerry Seinfeld

You have nothing coming into a major metropolitan area to relocate or locate your business and employees. And you can go across the country and you'll see that. — Richard M. Daley

The Church's roots are in the teaching of the apostles, the authentic witnesses of Christ, but she looks to the future, she has the firm consciousness of being sent - sent by Jesus - of being missionary, bearing the name of Jesus by her prayer, proclaiming it and testifying to it. A Church that is closed in on herself and in the past, a Church that only sees the little rules of behavior, of attitude, is a Church that betrays her own identity; a closed Church betrays her own identity! Then, let us rediscover today all the beauty and responsibility of being the Church apostolic! And remember this: the Church is apostolic because we pray - our first duty - and because we proclaim the Gospel by our life and by our words. — Pope Francis

That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this. — Susan Jane Gilman