Susanna Moodie Quotes

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

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• I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Good
  • Moving
  • Myself

• I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Believe
  • Rich
  • Duty

• Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Men
  • Running
  • Heaven

• I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Fear
  • Communicate
  • Bones

• Innovation is the only way to win.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Way
  • Win
  • Innovation

• Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

  

  Bill Cosby
  • Parents
  • Justice
  • Interested

• People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Universe
  • Imagine
  • Enlightenment

• We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice.

  

  Shawn Amos
  • Song
  • Problem
  • Singing

• The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Age
  • Yourself
  • Curiosity

• I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Women
  • Why
  • Business

• Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Living
  • Deserve
  • Wage

• I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Woman
  • I Know
  • Black Woman

• Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Heart
  • Fall
  • Winning

• I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.

  

  Brett Morgen
  • Subtext
  • Non-fiction films

• Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Life
  • Painful
  • Chickens

• Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

  

  Susanna Moodie
  • Chickens
  • Curses
  • Come Home