Thien Nhat Hanh Quotes

#1. I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be talking just to myself. That's when I did 'The Conformist,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' etc. And I found it was incredibly rewarding, something new.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#2. Hard, fast. He fucked me as if he hated me, but the words spilling out were nothing but love.

Alessandra Torre

#3. You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.

Seanan McGuire

#4. I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.

Mal Peet

#5. Parental criticism is unhelpful. It creates anger and resentment. Even worse, children who are regularly criticized learn to condemn themselves and others. They learn to doubt their own worth and to belittle the value of others. They learn to suspect people and to expect personal doom.

Haim G. Ginott

#6. To fulfil destiny is to bring the whole earth under the principles of God's kingdom

Sunday Adelaja

#7. It looks great on her because she has a bangin' body.

Amy A. Bartol

#8. If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.

Marvin J. Ashton

#9. Most of us are not really approaching the subject [scriptures] in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it [them] in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

C.S. Lewis

#10. Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#11. Well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

Diana Gabaldon