Shining Girls Quotes

#1. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun.

Charles Bukowski

#2. Anger is, in the Stoic analysis, caused by the violent collision of hope and reality. We

The School Of Life

#3. The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

Ha-Joon Chang

#4. Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#5. It (Life) is constantly changing, and yet it remains the same.

Jan Hawkins

#6. When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called 'A Shining Season,' and it really moved me. I was maybe 8 or 9. Timothy played a runner who had cancer, and he defied the odds by coaching a girls' team to victory.

Reggie Lee

#7. Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

Jamie Campbell Bower

#8. The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer
When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.

Thomas Paine

#9. Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

Amartya Sen

#10. The more distortions we have the less attention we can pay to realizing our potential and self- actualization of our personality

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist. But they don't. And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ's apostles, they were destroyed by envy on the battlefront.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. Love is selfless! Love is "you before me" decision making. Need it shorter? Love = Ub4me! There it is.

James MacDonald

#13. A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Herbert Hoover

#14. Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

Douglas MacArthur

#15. No one said it would be pretty, yanking despair out of a woman.

Lauren Beukes

#16. And he's sorry he ever doubted the House. She's the one. One of the ones. His shining girls.

Lauren Beukes

#17. The women were blank, shining areas with photographs of sad girls floating in them.

Denis Johnson

#18. No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

John F. Kennedy

#19. I'm indifferent and it's a matter of wanting to stay away from the whole Michael Vick situation, whether he is involved or not. I'm not saying anything about dogfighting or anyone who might be involved in it.

Jonathan Vilma

#20. For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.

James Herbert