Zaldonis Quotes & Sayings

My mentor used to say that no one can make us feel badly about ourselves unless we allow it. He lectured me endlessly that the biggest offenders to shrink our self-worth weren't others, but ourselves. — Veronica Blade

The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. — T. Harv Eker

Dove hated that he knew way too much about her now. He knew she had a big girl boner for Johnson, he knew she'd tried to remove her crotch hair and had crapped her pants. It was Shameful with a capital Shit. — Debra Anastasia

Presence is more than just being there. — Malcolm Forbes Jr.

They took a bite from the forbidden fruit, and the fruit bit back. — Kevin DeYoung

No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame. — Vineet Raj Kapoor

It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall. — Elena Ferrante

Only a very small proportion of us take those excesses with us into later life. In the age before everyone had a camera, it was worthwhile, in my opinion, to record those excesses. Sometimes, many times actually, the young people I photographed were only dressed that way for one night; that one night that they got snapped by me. — Derek Ridgers

I felt her soul staring deep into mine. Her eyes were full of wondering interest and her beauty was softened by an air of mystery. — Brittainy C. Cherry

The Romans formed a line of mantlets and constructed a siege terrace. When they began to erect a siege tower at some distance, the defenders on the wall at first made abusive remarks and ridiculed the idea of setting up such a huge apparatus so far away. Did those pygmy Romans, they asked, with their feeble hands and muscles, imagine that they could mount such a heavy tower on top of a wall? (All the Gauls are inclined to be contemptuous of our short stature, contrasting it with their own great height.) 31. But when they saw the tower in motion and approaching the fortress walls, the strange, unfamiliar spectacle frightened them into sending envoys to ask Caesar for peace. The envoys said they were forced to the conclusion that the Romans had divine aid in their warlike operations, since they could move up apparatus of such height at such a speed. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real. — Ernest Cline

When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work. — Jack Kerouac

This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy. — Tom Brown Jr.