Udcstaffordstreet Quotes & Sayings

There are some losses we never get over. — Lauren Oliver

There's this thing called the competence-deviance hypothesis," she explained. "It says that the more competent an individual is in his field - the more respected he is in the community - the more his eccentric behavior will be tolerated by others. "But the opposite is true for young people, because they have not done anything to earn respect in a community. So when they do weird things they are treated like dangerous animals and hustled into cages. It seems unfair when older, respectable members of the community do stuff that's even stranger and people just shake their heads and smile at their eccentricity." I — John Elder Robison

You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chop-sticks, as to try to interest me, about the lesser carnivora, when I know of what is before me. — Bram Stoker

never thought about it so abstractly," he confessed. "I've been too busy puzzling over why I came here. — Jack London

He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends. — Orson Scott Card

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it. — Plotinus

Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self. — Allan Lokos

Her expression is fierce and uncompromising, full of the intrepid bravery of a small boat in an uncertain sea. — Maggie Stiefvater

Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw. — John Allison

I'm Indian all the way and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I'm a good example of a human being and of my tribe. — Anna Mae Aquash

There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my business should prosper, or that my farm should yield plentifully, but I'll not stir a peg." But he is no more foolish than the man who says, "I am willing that God should bless me abundantly, but I shall not do anything toward that end myself." We must consistently rely upon the help of the Lord, but we will not make any progress or meet with any success unless we put forth an earnest effort. — Charles W. Nibley