Freda Swartz > Freda's Quotes

“Oh, for goodness’ sake… Get over yourself.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

“Recognize there’s always value in taking the shot as you’re learning and building muscle memory. There is no such thing as perfect.”
― Chitra D. Nawbatt, The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success

“The people at the center of these stories of power couples mostly choose to see their own motives as selfless. In Elizabeth Edwards’ autobiography Resilience, she wrote of her marriage to John, U.S. senator from North Carolina, ‘We were lovers, life companions, crusaders, side by side, for a vision of what the country could be.’ When she found out he was cheating on her, the crusading together became ‘the glue’ that kept them together. ‘I grabbed hold of it. I needed to,’ Edwards wrote. ‘Although I no longer knew what I could trust between the two of us, I knew I could trust in our work together.’ She wanted ‘an intact family fighting for causes more important than any one of us.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“That’s how we are programmed”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“Jerusalem takes you in and puts you under its exotic, opulent spell in a way few other cities can.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

“People might try a product for its features, but they stick with it because of feelings.”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

“Ravenous for knowledge
I
devour the silence,

then kneel, an acolyte,

in dawn’s gray light.”
― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation

“The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift,
The road is forlorn all day,
Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift,
And the hoof-prints vanish away.
The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee,
Expend their bloom in vain.
Come over the hills and far with me,
And be my love in the rain.”
― Robert Frost

“This is exactly what They expect you to do," Momma says.
They with a capital T.
There's Them and then there's Us.
Sometimes They look like Us and don't recognize They are Us.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“How I hate everything!”
― Edith Wharton, Summer

“No se puede sanar al mundo sin sanarse primero a sí mismo.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“God bless the Scots and their puritan upbringing,”
― Jeffrey Archer, As the Crow Flies

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
― Toni Morrison