Xarah Xavier Quotes & Sayings

It's not pity, Isabelle. It's survival. I'm not letting you go through this alone. I'll see you at eleven. — Melyssa Winchester

On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight into the kitchen, washing up the morning dishes she'd ignored, then getting dinner started. She measured out the nightly cup of rice, letting it soak in a pan on the counter. She peeled onions and potatoes and picked through lentils and prepared another night's dinner, then fed Bela. She was never able to understand why this relatively unchallenging set of chores felt so relentless. When she was finished, she did not understand why they had depleted her — Jhumpa Lahiri

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings. — Robert Bork

Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me. — Linda Conrad

Proof by analogy is fraud. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer. — James Cook

Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things. — Simon Sinek

Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife of a man I knew. Her hospitality was immaculate. Some months later I sang it for Judy Collins over the telephone. The publishing rights were lost in New York City, but it is probably appropriate that I don't own this song. Just the other day I heard some people singing it on a ship in the Caspian Sea. — Leonard Cohen

As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show's success, because it gives the show this sense of suspense from the fact that it seems at least plausible. — Michael Loceff

We may express them [emotions] physically slightly differently, and it's of course graded depending on the circumstance, but the essence of the process is going to be the same, unless one of us is not quite well put together and is missing something, otherwise it's going to be the same. — Antonio Damasio

The only ones who will be exalted into a position of leadership are those who have mastered the art of following. — Karen M. Curry

I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me. — Henry David Thoreau

I live in a kind of tension between the will to say yes to my suffering, and my inability to utter this yes with complete sincerity. — Karl Jaspers

the feeling of control - whether real or illusory - is one of the wellsprings of mental health. — Daniel M. Gilbert