Matuska Valdemar Quotes

#1. We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.

Timothy B. Tyson

#2. I had to learn how to be faithful. When I was dating around and moving from woman to woman, I did not understand and know how to be faithful. Subsequently, once I entered into marriage, I had to learn how to be with one woman. For me, that was the biggest challenge of all.

Tony Gaskins

#3. Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.

Aretha Franklin

#4. The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

Seneca The Younger

#5. Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

John Locke

#6. Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not "the guy," it's the guy next to the guy.

Anthony Mackie

#7. In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct.
Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out.

Chitralekha Paul

#8. You have a mother?"
He quirked a brow. "Did you think mine was some sort of divine birth? My father was a remarkable man, but even he was not that talented.

Julia Quinn

#9. It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.

T.H. White

#10. In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.

Mary J. Blige

#11. The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

Robert Harris

#12. I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.

Jerry N. Uelsmann

#13. (On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man's power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm that has enabled him to dispense with human nature.

Anthony Trollope

#14. Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

Cat Stevens