Quotes About 157

#1. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. I think work is the best. (Frida Kahlo, p. 157)

Martha Zamora

#2. To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

Stephen Batchelor

#3. Sometimes you have to go through pain to appreciate happiness." P.157 of "Two Weddings.

Farin Powell

#4. Generosity is, by definition, disinterested." (p.157)

Piero Ferrucci

#5. All these gifts you have, Carley. All these gifts you have." -pg. 157

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

#6. Judge people by how they stand there and do nothing when bad shit happens. (157)

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

#7. Just as Sarah Keeler had taught me that children die, Wendy taught me that you don't have to wade through the insanity; you can get off the bus. This scared me so much that a sweaty panic swept over me. From that moment on I knew it was possible to end my own life. (157)

Monica Holloway

#8. Being well regulated in relatedness is the deeply gratifying state that people seek ceaselessly in romance, religions, and cults; in husbands and wives, pets, softball teams, bowling leagues, and a thousand other features of human life driven by the thirst for sustaining affiliations. (157)

Thomas Lewis

#9. [Dona Queta] says that her motherly advice is always the same: 'Only whores, thieves, and cops go out at night. Which one are you, asshole?' p. 157

Daniel Hernandez

#10. For the first time in memory, I was unable to sleep not because I was anxious but because I was excited. To live in a damp crowded asshole and sing
if these guys don't know the secret to living, I don't know who does. (The Grieving Owl, page 157)

David Sedaris

#11. Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

Esmeralda Santiago

#12. There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.

William Zinsser

#13. You seek too much information and not enough transformation.

Sai Baba

#14. It's incredibly important to note that when you don't allow failure, you get more failure.

Seth Klarman

#15. I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

Megan Fox

#16. I scrubbed every inch of my body until it was pink and shiny, laughing hysterically because I had to use Rule's dude soap and ended up smelling like a seventeen-year-old boy who'd just discovered AXE body spray

Jay Crownover

#17. One does not have to be a priest to be a man!

Geraldine Brooks

#18. A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Brian W. Aldiss

#19. I think in general it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings, and the Web's a form of communications, so it generally should be good.

Tim Berners-Lee

#20. There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is a personal defilement. There are others, and I think I am one of them, who are entirely indifferent to where they live.

J.G. Ballard

#21. Startups don't fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

Steve Blank

#22. I had not cried for Margo until then, but now finally I did, pounding against the ground and shouting because there was no on to hear: I missed her I missed her I missed her I miss her.

John Green

#23. What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

Thomas Pynchon

#24. I'd rather be on a label that understands us and allows us to be a bit odd.

Sean Booth

#25. Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.

Brian Posehn

#26. Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

William Gurnall

#27. The foundations of your childhood, they stay with you.

Cassandra Clare