Vassanji Minion Quotes & Sayings

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life. — Stephen Lang

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative. — Catherine Ashton

She had a chain of blue forget-me-nots tattooed around her left wrist. — Neil Gaiman

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes. — Joyce Cary

God Incidents," were moments of time when, years later, I could see that the hand of God was guiding us toward His purpose. — Diana Mankin Phelps

A book about courage-a long string of tiny courageous steps. It is also about hope and faith and love. It is modest, careful and joyous. I do not see how any attentive reader could fail to be touched, awed and encouraged." Sara Maitland, Author — Alice Warrender

Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery. — Zack Love

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. — Norm Dicks

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor. — Sarah Bernhardt

I don't want to sit until I'm 90 with people running around after me. I'm not one for sitting on the couch. — Paul O'Grady

Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling. — Darin Strauss

She wanted a life not full of things, but stories, so many stories that, if they'd had weight and heft, they wouldn't have fit into a thousand suitcases. — Sarah Addison Allen

Integrity Integrity is the ability to listen to a place inside oneself that doesn't change, even though the life that carries it may change. - RABBI JONATHAN OMER-MAN Much of our journey throughout this book has been about discovering that place inside and cultivating the ability to listen to it, while having compassion for the life that carries it. It moves me to share the story of a troubled man who, exhausted from his suffering and confusion, asked a sage for help. The sage looked deeply into the troubled man and with compassion offered him a choice: "You may have either a map or a boat." After looking at the many pilgrims about him, all of whom seemed equally troubled, the confused man said, "I'll take the boat." The sage kissed him on the forehead and said, "Go then. You are the boat. Life is the sea." As we have discovered so many times, we have everything we need within us. This ability to listen inside is our oldest oar. You are the boat. — Mark Nepo

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't. — Arthur L. Herman