Usuci Quotes & Sayings

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test. — Samuel West

I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world. — Henry David Thoreau

How was she going to do it? She didn't know. She had a hundred questions and just one answer. But the one answer she had trumped all the questions.
That answer? God. — Becky Wade

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern. — Lyman Abbott

Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn't believe any of it from an early age - the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish. — David Cross

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are. — Rosamund Lupton

In executing an Artful Strategy: When ten times greater, surround them; When five times greater, attack them; When two times greater, scatter them. If the opponent is ready to challenge: When fewer in number, be ready to evade them; When unequal to the match, be ready to avoid them. Even when the smaller opponents have a strong position, the larger opponent will capture them. — Sun Tzu

The globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious crises they might generate. — Patricio Aylwin

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. — Dave Eggers

My dear cousin means the world to me. He is my only ally and I lost him. Deep in my heart I know he didn't want to blame me but his heart is set on that training and I had been beginning to think that took priority over family. I hope he would see reason but I can't not blame him if he doesn't. Breaking free from this castle is a dream not only held by me.
But I can't imagine having to reason with someone who stole your future. — Celia Mcmahon

I couldn't will my beloved Berlin streets across the world or make the people I loved appear when I needed them, but by summoning the flavors of Berlin and the foods of my loved ones, my kitchen became my sanctuary, the stove my anchor.
Distance means nothing when your kitchen smells like home. — Luisa Weiss