Aphrodites Quotes & Sayings

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy. — John Landgraf

We are not rational animals; we are rationalizing animals. — Hugh Howey

Why should I keep myself so safe?" he asked her, but he was almost asking himself. What is there in my life worth preserving? With a good wife back there in the mountains, serviceable as an old spoon, dry in the heart from having been scared of marriage since she was six? With three children so shy of their father, the Prince of the Arjikis, that they will hardly come near him? With a careworn clan moving here, moving there, going through th same disputes, herding the same herds, as thy have done for five hundred years? And me, with a shallow and undirected mind, no artfulness in word or habit, no especial kindness toward the world? What is there that makes my life worth preserving?
"I love you," said Elphaba.
"So that's that then, and that's it," he answered her and himself. "And I love you. So I promise to be careful. — Gregory Maguire

The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else's belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth. — Louise Hay

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. — Truman Capote

She was not the still quiet type. Aphrodites never are. — Lenora Henson

Sensual and spiritual are not easy words to use; that there are, perhaps, not two
Aphrodites, but one Aphrodite with a Janus face. — E. M. Forster

I wear crop tops and stuff, but I genuinely like that style, so it's just has to be genuine. Once you start getting to that world where you're using sexuality to try to propel something, you're losing the moment. You've lost; people are not focusing on that anymore. — Kiesza

I felt the glare on my back, knowing that if it were a knife, I'd be incapacitated instantly. — Rebecca Donovan

The wrong way to go about this is to say: Well, researchers have 'proved' that animals only understand fifty words or something similarly absurd. Or that communication with other species is an illusion. Communication is not the preserve of humans; it is the one thing that is truly universal. — Lawrence Anthony

A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that. — Fredrik Backman

Indeed, as I made my critique, the problem seemed to me not that there are differences but rather how we value these differences. — Sue Monk Kidd

Quit hogging the Cheetos, you stupid fuck. — Chris Bowsman