Waheeb Elle Quotes & Sayings

I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature. — Vaginal Davis

Complacency is easy ... and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out. — Adam Jones

Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives: play by the rules, and do what is expected. But as much social science research and writing by Malcolm Gladwell, among others, make clear, the rules are mostly created by those already in power so obtaining power often entails standing out and breaking rules and social conventions. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

Memories are fool's gold. — Marty Rubin

Life is like a road.
With turnings and shortcuts.
Then one day ...
just ends. — Myself

To forget oneself is to be happy. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching. — Charles Darwin

The homunculus narrator experiences everything backward - his first memory is Unverdorben's death. He has no control over Unverdorben's actions, nor access to his memories, but passively travels through life in reverse order. At first Unverdorben appears to us as a doctor, which strikes the narrator as quite a morbid occupation - patients shuffle into the emergency room, where staff suck medicines out of their bodies and rip off their bandages, sending them out into the night bleeding and screaming. But near the end of the book, we learn that Unverdorben was an assistant at Auschwitz, where he created life where none had been before - turning chemicals and electricity and corpses into living persons. Only now, thinks the narrator, does the world finally make sense. — Sean Carroll

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. — Sophie Swetchine