Serena Butler Quotes

The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers," her mother had once told her. "But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons. ~ Brian Herbert

Too. A woman should have something of her own. Doro ~ Octavia E. Butler

Entropy, the idea that the natural flow of heat is from something hot to something cool - not the other way - so that the universe itself is cooling down, running down, dissipating its energy. ~ Octavia E. Butler

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do. ~ Octavia E. Butler

The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong. ~ William Butler Yeats

Self is.
Self is body and bodily
perception. Self is thought, memory,
belief. Self creates. Self destroys.
Self learns, discovers, becomes.
Self shapes. Self adapts. Self
invents its own reasons for being.
To shape God, shape Self. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Soul Mates mirror our Divine nature.-Serena Jade ~ Serena Jade

All that could run or leap or swim
Whether in wood, water or cloud,
Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him. ~ William Butler Yeats

Her speeches were about the sanctity of the home, about how women should stay home. Serena Joy didn't do this herself, she made speeches instead, but she presented this failure of hers as a sacrifice she was making for the good of all. ~ Margaret Atwood

Alone in the worn mahogany paneled library surrounded by hundreds of books that filled every shelf and lined every wall from floor to ceiling, Lady Butler contemplated, How odd it is that a room filled with millions of words can be so silent. ~ Lance Taubold

All we'll ever need is within each other," Serena said, her voice barely more than a whisper. "Even when we have our child, it will only be an image of what we already are. ~ Ron Rash

Is this the part where you tell me he'll come around?" "Hell, no." At least Phil Butler was an honest man. Five ~ S.E. Jakes

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong. ~ Samuel Butler

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate. ~ Samuel Butler

Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. It is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying. ~ Octavia E. Butler

The effect of gender is produced through the stylization of the body and, hence, must be understood as the mundane way in which bodily gestures, movements, and styles of various kinds constitute the illusion of an abiding gendered self. This formulation moves the conception of gender off the ground of a substantial model of identity to one that requires a conception of gender as a constituted social temporality. ~ Judith Butler

Successful people make it a habit of doing the hard things ~ Shay Carl Butler

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. ~ Samuel Butler

The way he loved was almost like a vise, a weight; at times she felt it verged on codependence--that his identity, his value system, all of it very much hinged on her. ~ Nickolas Butler

Give all the credit in the world to Angelique Kerber - great, great talent. She's been in the top 10 for the last four years, and she's one of those players that just really had a difficult time, when the chips were on the table, to kind of bring them over. And this time, she did it. I'm really happy for her because these chances don't come for these other players. Serena Williams has got 21 grand slam champions. Angelique Kerber was in her first final. ~ Howard Bryant

You of all people should know that women play a bigger factor in the game of thrones than men. ~ Alyson Serena Stone

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. ~ William Butler Yeats

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ~ Nicholas M. Butler

My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie. ~ Lee Daniels

Serena was on her feet, her face pale, the bruises standing out in stark contrast, but she was alive. And I loved her. ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

Thing about marriage i've learned over the years? Just make your partner happy. ~ Eden Butler

how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Funny thing about love, ain't it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn't enough. ~ Eden Butler

Beware:
Ignorance
Protects itself.
Ignorance
Promotes suspicion.
Suspicion
Engenders fear.
Fear quails,
Irrational and blind,
Or fear looms,
Defiant and closed.
Blind, closed,
Suspicious, afraid,
Ignorance
Protects itself,
And protected,
Ignorance grows. ~ Octavia E. Butler

And wisdom is a butterfly
And not a gloomy bird of prey ... ~ William Butler Yeats

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving. ~ Yancy Butler

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ~ Samuel Butler

Jaysus, you must be the most nosey little shite I have ever come across in my bleeding life. ~ Eden Butler

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. ~ Samuel Butler

Right." Sadie looked dazed. "You've got a monkey butler. Why not? ~ Rick Riordan

I've always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of film. ~ Austin Butler