Wassilewskija Quotes & Sayings

True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers. — Lewis Hyde

The movies were so healing for me because I had such an isolated, lonely childhood. Going to the movies and having the lights go down, you disappear. If you have esteem issues, suddenly you're in a void where nobody can see you. You are just by yourself in that darkness, and your loneliness is cured. — Michael De Luca

There are those too who toss around like insomniacs, and keep changing their position until they find rest through sheer weariness. They keep altering the condition of their lives, and eventually stick to that one in which they are trapped not by weariness with further change but by old age which is too sluggish for novelty. — Anonymous

Fall in love with someone
who tastes like adventure
but looks like
the calm, beautiful morning
after a terrible storm — Nikita Gill

It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it. — Jack Dorsey

Elephant altruism on the Kenyan plains. With her tusks, Grace (right) lifted the fallen three-ton Eleanor to her feet, then tried to get her to walk by pushing her. But Eleanor fell again and eventually died, leaving Grace vocalizing with streaming temporal glands - a sign of deep distress. Being matriarchs of different herds, these two elephants were likely unrelated. — Frans De Waal

How did you get here?
Close your eyes ...
and surrender! — Rumi

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. — Jonathan Swift

At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English. — Matthew Rhys

Your what?"
"He keeps saying he's my brother. That he's come to take me with him."
"Just ... try and figure it out ok? I've got family issues of my own to deal with. — Debbie Moon

We walked to another door with an amber light above it. This one led to a hall I hadn't seen before. It was less pristine than the others. There were whiteboards on the walls, scribbled with notes about cafeteria menus and security sweeps. There were even a few flyers taped up, advertising cars for sale or asking if anyone knew a good tutoring service for high school biochemistry. It looked so much more real than the place I'd been since I woke up, so much more human, that it almost made my chest hurt. The world still existed. I'd died and come back, and the whole time I was gone, the world continued. — Mira Grant