Vyvyan Two Quotes & Sayings

What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism. — Mark Gevisser

Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute. — Ayn Rand

Leadership defined: An equal and dual commitment to both results and relationships without compromising one for the other. — Al Ritter

Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings. — Henri Nouwen

The sight of her showing so much fake patriotism for the Commonwealth made him want to tear off that sash and strangle her with it. — Marissa Meyer

I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years. — Mark Bridges

Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay. — Paul Craig Roberts

Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in. — Jenifer Lewis

I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house. — Andy Ihnatko

We act by virtue of what we recognize as beneficial. At the present time, negation is the most beneficial of all - and we deny. — Ivan Turgenev

She couldn't hide from everyone for the rest of her life ... Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good. — Ann Brashares

You don't know who you are; you just know what they've told you about who you are! — Maddy Malhotra

Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories ... The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would. — Elena Ferrante

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff. — Bob Dylan