In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. —Christopher Morley More about this quote Tags: beauty heart Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. —Robert Orben More about this quote Tags: sin temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. —John Maynard Keynes More about this quote Tags: words thought wildness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A cult is a religion with no political power. —Tom Wolfe More about this quote Tags: politics power religion cult Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people. —Jodi Picoult in Songs of the Humpback Whale More about this quote Tags: love people fate Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you’re gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it. —Kimberly Willis Holt in My Louisiana Sky More about this quote Tags: change worry fretting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire. —Bernard Williams More about this quote Tags: talent genius metaphor fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. —Russell Baker More about this quote Tags: progress change conservatism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. —George Burns More about this quote Tags: life future Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. —Theodore Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: history future conservation generations natural resources Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of these days you’re going to fall in love. Don’t settle for just anyone. Choose the girl that doesn’t come easy; the one you have to fight for, and then never stop fighting. Never. —Jamie McGuire in Walking Disaster More about this quote Tags: love girls fight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity. —Leonard Cohen More about this quote Tags: love gifts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Marriage is an extraordinary thing, and I doubt if any outsider — even a child of the marriage — has the right to judge. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Tags: relationships judgement marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them — children, duties, visits, bores, relations: the things that protect married people from each other. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: love relationships people children marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory. —Virginia Peterson More about this quote Tags: love memory marriage divorce Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email