Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca Solnit

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

Sorin Cerin

By understanding Evil just as well as Good, the human being will understand itself and with this it will disappear the self alienation of man at an individual level as at the social level.

Charles Smith

I know of no law government can use for that. The nearest there is are the regulations of the Alienation of Land Act, but its terms are too narrow to be the basis of a moratorium.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

Jon Katz

There's a streak of alienation running through this culture, ... There's a streak of braininess, obsessiveness. I mean, anybody can use a computer, but not anybody's a geek.

Marilyn Nelson

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

Richard Greenberg

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.

Peter Phillips

Since it is the state which is responsible for these social services, the government becomes discredited and a deep-seated attitude of alienation sets in. The entire society reaps the effect in the high incidence of crime, violence and anti-social behaviour

Kelly Rowland

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Kazuo Ishiguro

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

Katy Perry

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

John Huston

I was in such a bad position probably a couple of months ago I just decided to start playing every week. I wanted to see if I could kind of get some sort of a feel for the game back.... I've started playing a little better.

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Nicholson Baker

Keyboard work creates a class of unwanted things - one-letter typos, failures of phrasing, bad punctuation. If you don't want to delete these entirely, you can use the Return key to push them to the bottom of the screen.

Joan Greene

Kids today are very bright. They know bad things happen, and they need to know that this man who has been so wonderful has done nothing wrong.

Richard Armitage

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

Paul Di Filippo

'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling.

Peter Pan

He damaged whatever legacy he has. When people think of him now, they think of molestation.

Dick Brickley

Interstate 10 was buckled and severely damaged in many spots. We were forced to use the median or leave the road many times.

David Graham

I just pointed and shot. When this precious relationship that we had was damaged by my thoughtless actions, the only thing that could satisfy her womanly vengeance was the life of the one that had, for an instant, taken her place.

Ian Michaels

It's unlikely that the only part of the roadway that was damaged was that car-shaped hole.

Youssef Ibrahim

This can only make the already-damaged image worse. The problem is, for four or five years, we haven't found a way to repair that damaged image.

Sam Olens

There were more houses damaged by the tornadoes, but fewer houses totally destroyed. The tornado doesn't compare.

Simon Lee

It's a huge relief. There are a number of small damaged patches, but they are off the race track and are now being dealt with.

Gore Vidal

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Graeme Smith

We are fearful it is possibly going to be sold for scrap, which would be a travesty.

Sharon Salzberg

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Jim Cole

More times than not people come up to me after the show saying that I helped better their understanding of grizzlies. The more information people have about the bears, the less fearful they'll be.

Londell McMillan

She's no longer fearful of the judicial system.

Jenna Jameson

When you're fearful, you stumble.

John Carioba

People are fearful of the outlook in general.

Sarah Williams

We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night

Jim Parker

We are relieved. We were fearful while they were on the loose because we did not know their agenda.

Adrian Wydeven

When moose come through Wisconsin, they don't seem too fearful of people. It makes them vulnerable if someone wanted to harm them.

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!

David Piercy

I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, and we'll see where he takes me.

Tomas Kaberle

I talked to Jeff right away between periods. Thank God it got his helmet first.

Terry Gilliam

He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick.

Gary Sheffield

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

Yiddish Proverbs

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Samir Geagea

God willing we may be done with this issue before the (March 14) deadline.

Mark McNulty

Golf is a very humbling game. I just hope the golf gods will be good to me again.

Hal Sutton

God shined on us today with this good weather. He knows this is a good cause.

Tyga

The first rap album I bought was Eminem's The Slim Shady LP so I wasn't even based on West Coast rap like that.

William Wordsworth

The truth is easier when you leavin' it out. Like when you "5 minutes away" but you're just leavin your house?

Tupac Shakur

You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.

Tupac Shakur

The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.

Tupac Shakur

When I die and they come for me bury me a g.

Tupac Shakur

Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.

Tupac Shakur

And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.

Tupac Shakur

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

Tupac Shakur

I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.

Ryan Murphy

I love crispy, cool sheets.