A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation… Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
BEN OKRIMost gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.
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I don’t care what straight people do, I don’t care what gay people do. I don’t care what nobody do. That’s they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I’m saying?
ASAP ROCKY -
All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
JIMI HENDRIX -
After the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good. He brought Poland into NATO and the European Union.
ADAM MICHNIK -
The mirror image has always been my role model.
HEI-RAN PARK -
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTEN -
The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.
BILLY GRAHAM -
When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one’s thoughts and actions.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI -
I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
FINNEAS -
Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
JOHN BERGER -
Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
DARREN SHAN -
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG -
You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA -
In some cases, you have been lending out your love to those that are used to taking in something ordinary or average, extraordinary and extraterrestrial would always be too much to handle.
DIARY S.H -
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNE -
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
IRIS MURDOCH -
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATES -
It’s street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don’t get bored and walk away.
JASON STATHAM -
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS -
Boyz ain’t playing around man!
LEBRON JAMES -
Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.
ZADIE SMITH -
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
RAY BRADBURY -
I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York… Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!
BILL HICKS -
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
AGNES REPPLIER -
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them — structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT -
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER