Brenda Shaughnessy Quotes
Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.
Quotes to Explore
-
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
-
Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
-
I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
-
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
-
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
-
Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.
-
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
-
The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
-
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
-
People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
-
It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
-
I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.
-
There are the right ways of doing it, and then there are ways that are ineffective. Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.
-
'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.
-
I love L.A. I'm such an L.A. person.
-
If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.
-
No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.
-
May I point out something? You always use true and truthfully, when you speak and when you write. Or you say: unexpectedly. But when do people ever speak truthfully and when do things ever happen unexpectedly? You know better than I that it’s all a fraud and that one thing follows another and then another. I don’t do anything truthfully anymore, Lenù. And I’ve learned to pay attention to things. Only idiots believe that they happen unexpectedly.
-
Justice will win - because might does not make right, and the only path to lasting peace is when people know that their dignity will be respected and that their rights will be upheld. And citizens, like nations, will never settle for a world where the big are allowed to bully the small. Sooner or later, they fight back.
-
Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose, With care his sweet person adorning, He put on his Sunday clothes.
-
The issues which have created the difficult, multiplex conditions our umma finds itself in have been accumulating over a long time. The treatment is going to be multidimensional, prolonged and has to be cumulative.
-
Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.
