Helaine Becker Quotes

#1. In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.

Lord Randolph Churchill

#3. When I was growing up, my mom used to tell my sister and me about a leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But she never mentioned a Russian Neanderthal with a bag of diamonds at the end of a bloody trail in a train station

James Patterson

#4. People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.

Jermaine Dupri

#5. Back when I was a kid, we had a saying, 'Unlucky at love, lucky at grand theft auto,'" Charley said.

Fred Willard

#6. If the soul within us does not change, Judas, the world outside us will never change. The enemy is within, the Romans are within, salvation starts from within!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#7. The past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

Sara Zarr

#8. Any sufficiently advanced lingerie is indistinguishable from a lethal weapon.

Charles Stross

#9. I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.

Clarice Lispector

#10. Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

Sylvester Stallone

#11. My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

Jan Hammer

#12. Empathy before education.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#13. Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.

Edward Glaeser