Youlette Lassiter Quotes & Sayings

Stop measuring yourself against us. It's not the right scale. You have your own gifts, your own talents. Show the world everything you're capable of, Marguerite. You don't even see how amazing you are. — Claudia Gray

There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father. — Jake Owen

she must provide a blanket of stability, which warms but does not suffocate, and she must tell her children the truth about the power of white power without suggesting that it cannot be challenged. — Maya Angelou

The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them. — Roger Tory Peterson

[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes! — Nadia Boulanger

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature. — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

It is very true, that the way you think creates reality for yourself. — Oprah Winfrey

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right — Aldous Huxley

When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they're going to the store and they've got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves, I'm offended that I can't go to the store like that. — Blake Lively

Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out. — Blaize Clement

Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams. — Randy Pausch

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation. — James McGreevey

Do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation — Vladimir Nabokov

Based on decades of observation, I propose that sudden high levels of praise always trigger an equal amount of inner self-loathing. — Chuck Palahniuk

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright. — Sophia Loren