Arises Def Quotes & Sayings

In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But in the east we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They're two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate. — Frederick Lenz

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before. — Temple Grandin

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party. — Benjamin Disraeli

It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached. — Naomi Watts

I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love of any soul, if, out of sentiment, we must give it, I might as well lavish it on the smallness of an inkwell as on the grand indifference of the stars. — Fernando Pessoa

Revenge is a bittersweet fruit that leaves the foul aftertaste of regret. — Michael J. Sullivan

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star. — Francis Thompson

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. — Blaise Pascal

Don't just crit their siticising. — Ronnie Barker

I remember the old northern legend of how God created the taiga while he was still a child. There were few colors, but they were childishly fresh and vivid, and their subjects were simple. Later, when God grew up and became an adult, he learned to cut out complicated patters from his pages and created many bright birds. God grew bored with his former child's world and he threw snow on his forest creation and went south forever. — Varlam Shalamov

Never in my life before that moment had I felt a need like this. It was so acute it made my teeth ache. Never had I felt like a bitch in heat, but I did then. I stared at that cock, and I wanted it. Wanted to drop to my knees and beg him for it, any way I could get it, anywhere. — R.K. Lilley

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be. — Adrian Tomine

We don't often take time to sit and meditate on what our lives would've been like if the mercy of the Redeemer had not been written into our personal stories. — Paul David Tripp