Wcalex Quotes & Sayings

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand — Alice Sebold

I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was in the 2nd, who then hit puberty like a plane crash and grew into a gorilla who bullied me when he was in the 4th year and I was in the 5th. That's Karma. — Simon Pegg

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress. — Mahatma Gandhi

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself. — Laura Hillenbrand

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule. — Al Franken

I'm the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring. — Gracie Allen

Ten-minute period before you sleep and the ten-minute period after you wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind. — Robin S. Sharma

Oh, to be told a blissful lie
that might be true! — Julio Dantas

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition. — Francois Fenelon

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward. — Beverly Pepper

I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds of marriages they had and how they loved or hurt each other on any given day, and if they were happy, and whether they thought happiness was a sustainable thing. — Paula McLain

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still. — Thomas Paine

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children ... A daughter continues to identify with the mother — Nancy Chodorow

The greatest obsession is I believe in myself. — Lailah Gifty Akita