Upsweep Braided Quotes & Sayings

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice. — Madame De Stael

If you think by comparing them you're making them inspire, you couldn't be more wrong. — Sarvesh Jain

(P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins. — Gayle Forman

At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cause nobody's standing in my way when I'm this close. — Rick Riordan

Being selfless is the biggest wiring mistake in us. — Himmilicious

Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful. — Andrea Riseborough

To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life. — Frederick Franck

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies. — Winston Churchill

A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others. — Morihei Ueshiba

Lolitas value independence and beauty above all else. — Novala Takemoto

I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me. — Diana Abu-Jaber