Standing Above The Crowd Quotes

#1. The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Italo Calvino

#2. As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

Davey Havok

#3. I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#4. My parents would have loved me to go to university - Oxbridge, particularly.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

#5. I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#6. Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

Elie Wiesel

#7. Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

Samuel Johnson

#8. Other women were like presents he was constantly disappointed in unwrapping

Jess Walter

#9. We are challenging white feminists to be accountable for their racism because at the base we still want to believe that they really want freedom for all of us.

Cherrie L. Moraga

#10. Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

Kim Cattrall

#11. For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

Margaret Mead

#12. there is more than a hint of arrogance in the assumption that we can make our relationships permanent,

Esther Perel

#13. It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.

William R. Bowen

#14. Formerly, in solitude and in silence, he had been used to think clearly and sometimes even profoundly, seeing life outside the flattering optical delusion of everlasting hope, of conventional self-deceptions, of an ever-expected happiness.

Joseph Conrad