Windowed Borderless Quotes & Sayings

Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up. — Salman Rushdie

As we figuratively sit beside ourselves and inquire, listen and name our experience, we see Mara clearly and open our heart in tenderness for the suffering before us. — Tara Brach

Don't worry about whether you can do it, Bailey Bean. Just pretend you can. Pretend enough and it becomes real. — Jill Shalvis

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they're always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake. — Stephen King

... is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change? — Jean-Francois Lyotard

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer. — Scarlett Johansson

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful. — Fran Lebowitz

Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players. — Johan Cruijff

Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty. — George Washington