Uncomely Def Quotes & Sayings

If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on. — Richie Norton

What the fates have writ, men shall not erase . . . . How many times he [Lut] had uttered those words. But what exactly did they mean? That one's fate was inalterably fixed? A man's entire life? Was there no chance for redemption? Though he had never revealed this to anyone, especially not the elders, he'd long entertained the notion that perhaps not all of a man's life was preordained. For, if so, what was the point of living? Perhaps, just perhaps, he dared to imagine, impediments were placed in our paths by the gods, and a man was judged by how well he dealt with those obstacles . . . . Instead of a man being wholly defined by his fate, perhaps a man's very character was defined by his response to the fate that was spun for him. Couldn't it at least be possible? — James Jennewein

Happy people continuously change; and because they change they become more and more happy; and then more and more change is possible. — Rajneesh

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs. — David Friedman

She is like a butterfly,
Beautiful to look at
But hard to catch. — Nikki Rowe

When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and circumstance to determine our life course. — Cortney S. Warren

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. — Camille Paglia

The writer's life is frightful — Lailah Gifty Akita

I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it. — Jackie Earle Haley