Adrianas On The Hill Quotes & Sayings

Humans are the beings whose essence is in not having an essence — Simone De Beauvoir

I became famous almost before I had a craft. — Farrah Fawcett

OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus. — A. M. Rosenthal

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction. — Seneca The Younger

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment. — Joseph Joubert

My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power; so that when we have done our best in things external to us, all wherein we fail of success is to be held, as regards us, absolutely impossible: and this single principle seemed to me sufficient to prevent me from desiring for the future anything which I could not obtain, and thus render me contented — Rene Descartes

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having. — D.H. Lawrence

It was God's brilliant idea to create man, to create woman, and join them in marriage - this unique union that begins with a look and quickly escalates into shouts of joy, nakedness, uninhibited freedom, and a closeness so magical it's described as becoming one flesh. — Justin Buzzard

The amount of data in the world is doubling every few years, but our attention system, like the rest of the brain, was built to make sense of the surrounding environment as it existed ten thousand years ago. — John J. Ratey

Vanity and narcissism - the compulsive need to be admired and praised - undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own. — Rollo May