Winschel North Quotes & Sayings

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. — Douglas Horton

The institutions are working better now, the banks are much more functional. At this time, 1997, there were no mobile phones! It's a whole different thing now with mobile phones: technology has created a form of regulation, because people can actually talk to each other a lot more. — Rem Koolhaas

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward. — Margaret Atwood

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. — Huey Newton

He doesn't hurt us anymore."
Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore. — Melanie O'Shea

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman. — Jacques Attali

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life. — Loni Anderson

The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I can imagine that if there existed a God who loved, the devil would be driven to destroy even the weakest, the most faulty imitation of love. Wouldn't he be afraid that the habit of love might grow, and wouldn't he try to trap us all into being traitors, into helping him extinguish love? If there is a God who uses us and makes his saints out of such material as we are, the devil too may have his ambitions; he may dream of training even such a person as myself ... into being his saints, ready with borrowed fanaticism to destroy love wherever we find it. — Graham Greene

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race. — Mike Huckabee

Where would fashion be without literature? — Diana Vreeland

I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love within the context of community. — Bell Hooks

I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound. — Laura Fraser

One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world. — Ada Louise Huxtable

He was tall and wiry and looked as though he had been a horse in previous lives and had only just avoided it in this one. — Terry Pratchett