1436 Key Quotes & Sayings

Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn't believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery. — Kerri Maniscalco

I'm certainly not a prude. — Kim Cattrall

With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it. — Joseph Addison

I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid. — Bai Ling

This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason. — Frederick Lenz

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father
very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God. — William P. Young

Those cries rose from among the twisted roots
through which the spirits of the damned were slinking
to hide from us. Therefore my Master said:
'If you break off a twig, what you will learn
will drive what you are thinking from your head.'
Puzzled, I raised my hand a bit and slowly
broke off a branchlet from an enormous thorn:
and the great trunk of it cried: 'Why do you break me?'
And after blood had darkened all the bowl
of the wound, it cried again: 'Why do you tear me?
Is there no pity left in any soul?
Men we were, and now we are changed to sticks;
well might your hand have been more merciful
were we no more than souls of lice and ticks.'
As a green branch with one end all aflame
will hiss and sputter sap out of the other
as the air escapes- so from that trunk there came
words and blood together, gout by gout.
Startled, I dropped the branch that I was holding
and stood transfixed by fear, ... — Dante Alighieri

She's got a compromised immune system when it comes to love. — Rainbow Rowell

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up — Quetzal

I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers. — Estelle

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs. — Ann Landers

People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere. — Iyanla Vanzant

I'm on stage where Rivers Cuomo from Weezer was standing? It's kind of a mind trip. — Drake Bell

The sword has to be more than a simple weapon; it has to be an answer to life's questions. — Miyamoto Musashi

The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation — Mikhail Lermontov