The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
Character isn't inherited.
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place
I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.
In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.
As far as the music being inspired by Seattle, I think it's in some of the songs. Seattle is a really beautiful place in the right light, it's perched on a pretty unique geographic setting.
Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
One of those heavenly days that cannot die.
We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.