Udden Quotes & Sayings

True decency was very different from pathological generosity, because pathological generosity did not take into account the feelings of the people who were the object of the generosity? — David Foster Wallace

One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself. — Bryant McGill

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin.
Wanting a man who was sin itself. — Elizabeth Hoyt

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird? — Boyle Roche

By putting my trust in God and my love in the alchemical transmutation, which working on my dreams leads me to, I was able to attract ideas, and those ideas inspired me to create something new. That which I created was a product, with value. — Daniel Marques

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving. — Bernie Mac

There's a spirit of freedom in Portland you can't find many other places. Austin has it a little, and Boulder has it. Nashville is glowing with it. It's not just a hippie thing either. It's something other, a feeling everybody else in the country is being corralled into buying just a few kinds of clothes, a couple of different records and watching the same television shows, while in these rare cities, these bastions of freedom, people have turned off their televisions to realize there are more than binary options for us to choose from. We don't have to be either conservative or liberal or religious or atheist or divided into this or that categories. We can be ourselves, a conglomerate of nuanced beliefs and opinions. — Donald Miller

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style. — Eddie Van Halen

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. — Idries Shah

Udden attack of culture snobbery is a common affliction among policemen of a certain rank and age; it's like a normal midlife crisis only with more chandeliers and foreign languages. — Ben Aaronovitch

I wish I could be elegant. — Robert Mapplethorpe

Children need models rather than critics. — Joseph Joubert