Usuzan Quotes & Sayings

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind. — Ronald Reagan

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives. — Timothy Keller

You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off." — Richard Sherman

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English? — Olivier Martinez

We should not try to understand God from what we think we know about love, but rather we should strive to understand love in the light of who God is. — Benno Van Der Toren

I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act. — Clive Owen

...the weeping, the tears of the hosts, whose sympathy underscores the inherent tragedy of my life as a transgender person, and this moment fulfilling the cathartic arc of rejection to acceptance, without ever interrogating the pathology of a society that refuses to acknowledge the spectrum of gender in the exact same blind way they refuse to see a spectrum of race or sexuality. — Lana Wachowski

Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away. — Nicholas Sparks

I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened. — Amy Adams

Eh! All of you! come here!! taste it! taste it, taste it, taste it!!! — Gordon Ramsay

As she continued to read to him, a look of peace relaxed across his features. It was a peace that Betsy knew transcended loyalties to nations and demonstrated they were subjects before one king - the King of Kings. — Elaine Marie Cooper

We plant the seeds of resilience in the ways we process negative events. After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that three P's can stunt recovery: (1) personalization - the belief that we are at fault; (2) pervasiveness - the belief that an event will affect all areas of our life; and (3) permanence - the belief that the aftershocks of the event will last forever. The three P's play like the flip side of the pop song "Everything Is Awesome" - "everything is awful." The loop in your head repeats, "It's my fault this is awful. My whole life is awful. And it's always going to be awful." Hundreds — Sheryl Sandberg

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest. — Kenneth Kaunda

Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes. A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More instruments join in. Flutes? Harps? The song races, seems to loop back over itself. "Werner?" Jutta whispers. He blinks; — Anthony Doerr

I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor. — Al Jolson