Sylvia Fraser Quotes

To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.

Sylvia Fraser

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• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Children
  • Sharp
  • Stairs

• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Education
  • Cool
  • Jail

• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Never

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • You
  • Party

• I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Myself
  • Listening

• I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Guilt
  • Whatever
  • Happily

• All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• We were inspired by the fierce dignity of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as she proved that no human being can truly be imprisoned if hope burns in your heart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • She
  • Hope

• The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • World
  • Financial

• My mom's always been a good cook, so I took a lot of stuff from her, but most of the stuff I took from Emeril or Bobby Flay right off the TV and make it. I just loved to cook, so it just became a thing. It's a release. Even if I'm alone, I'll cook a full meal, maybe even a two-course meal, just because I love to cook. It's my secret love!

  

  Christian Kane
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Mom

• I always choose to remember the moment that was the best of Jeanne Cooper - those photos where she's in that wild dress triumphantly hoisting up the Emmy the night she finally won the damn thing. She was so proud, so happy.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Up
  • She
  • Remember

• You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Friend

• There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford

• Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room. You've just got to be in the moment and go with it.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Different
  • Judge

• I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Moments

• I want my voice to have purpose.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Purpose

• By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Trying
  • Adversity

• What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

  

  Alan Hollinghurst
  • Problem
  • Technique
  • Redundancy

• It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Words

• I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

  

  William P. Young
  • Relationship
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be broken. If broken, the rules of forgiveness leading to re-establishment are equally of air and iron. I learn these rules with rather less ease than my contemporaries because, in the back streets of my being, a duel is developing and increasing in fervour between my instinct which knows why something is so, and my hen-pecking intelligence which wishes to analyse why something is so.

  

  Hal Porter
  • Rules
  • Forgiveness
  • Behaviour

• To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.

  

  Sylvia Fraser
  • Forgiveness
  • Healing
  • Cornerstone