Acunto Ovens Quotes & Sayings

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Good day to you, Sister," Gannon grunted, gritting his teeth and clenching the reins in a white-knuckled grip. "May you live to see your great-grandchildren, and may your eyes never grow dim!" Rolin stifled a snicker. His spinster aunt was childless, and her eyesight was poor from years of needlework. — William D. Burt

I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in public and are only marginally better in private. I only find you remotely tolerable when you're kissing me. — Tessa Dare

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere. — Bharati Mukherjee

The women were blank, shining areas with photographs of sad girls floating in them. — Denis Johnson

We have to sweat for everything we do in order succeed in this world we live in. — Euginia Herlihy

I want to put it back together now, this artistic expression that contains religious feeling. I want to investigate: What was the origin? What's happened in the human mind? Can we trace back the moment of the creation of human consciousness? And why did only humans gain consciousness, not other animals? So, evolution? I don't know whether or not I can believe evolution. Maybe we wait for another 100,000 years and then apes get consciousness. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

The body thinks it's real. That's the problem of modern physics. How to convince our minds that they're not our own. — Dominic Smith

I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it. — Pedro Almodovar

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones. — P. J. O'Rourke

A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery. — William Julius Wilson

But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?' — Frank Laubach

For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really often mean to say is 'icon,' 'star,' 'hero,' ones so possessed by an internal vision of divine goodness that they give us a glimpse of the face of God in the center of the human. They give us a taste of the possibilities of greatness in ourselves. — Joan D. Chittister

Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror. — Gautama Buddha

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed. — Monique Coleman