Ardency Def Quotes & Sayings

It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be decided. — Alain De Botton

I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female. — Jim Gaffigan

Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table
it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket
that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep. — Virginia Woolf

The human face is the subtle yet visual autobiography of each person, — John O'Donohue

What I have written, I have written. — Pontius Pilate

[...] the primal, animal sense of 'the other,' which may have evolved for the detection of threat, can take on a lofty, even transcendent function in human beings, as a biological basis for religious passion and conviction, where the 'other,' the 'presence,' becomes the person of God. — Oliver Sacks

If the air is jam-full of sounds which we tune in with, why should it not also be full of feels and smells and things seen through the spirit, drawing particles from us to them and them to us like magnets? — Emily Carr

Hearts don't break quietly — Ryann Jansen

You any good with that SIG?" Matt asked. Parker's voice held a trace of amusement. "Not bad. — Toni Anderson

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether." These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion. — Lawrence Durrell

Happiness is estentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly. — W.H. Sheldon