Dussman Quotes

#1. We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we so want, and actually deserve. ' (Petra Dussman in 'The Moment')

Douglas Kennedy

#2. What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?

John L. Balderston

#3. I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

Jan Karon

#4. I never really had an idol.

Maria Sharapova

#5. Ere the horne'd owl hoot
Once and twice and thrice there shall
Go among the blind brown worms
News of thy great burial;
When the pomp is passed away,
'Here's a King,' the worms shall say.

Adelaide Crapsey

#6. We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#7. I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

John Darnielle

#8. But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.

Jane Austen

#9. Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of separation from loved ones, one of the eight pains in Buddhism.

Ye Xiaowen

#10. A sense of change, of individual nothingness, of perplexity and disappointment, overpowered Margaret. Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all-pervading instability, had given her greater pain than if all had been too entirely changed for her to recognize it.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#11. Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

Horace