Wise Words Wednesday Quotes & Sayings

You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way. — Star Jones

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer. — Rita Dove

I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors. — Jason Dohring

Having been raised in a multiethnic and multifaith united India, he lost many of his childhood friends. Those who now belonged to the "wrong" faith were forced to immigrate to India; others left for England. — Maajid Nawaz

Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right. — Christine Caine

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life ... but I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future. — Gilberto Gil

Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts. — Baltasar Gracian

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high. — Chinua Achebe

A woman's lust is for a short time; a man's lust is forever. — Santosh Kalwar