Wrynose Quotes

#1. When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.

John Le Carre

#2. I see a sacred beautiful art.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

Mark Haddon

#4. I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

Mae Whitman

#5. The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.

John C. Maxwell

#7. I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

Iman

#8. We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come.

Barack Obama

#9. We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.

Rachel L. Schade

#10. I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#11. I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

Zooey Deschanel

#12. Weekends are a real luxury for me because I'm usually working.

Clare Balding

#13. I fear that many people seek to hear God solely as a device for obtaining their own safety, comfort and sense of being righteous. For those who busy themselves to know the will of God, however, it is still true that "those who want to save their life will lose it" (Mt 16:25).

Dallas Willard

#14. Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

Oliver Goldsmith