Arquilla Dove Quotes & Sayings

When I missed the physical body of my partner, I meditated on its parts, tossed by the waves, torn, dispersed, and deteriorated. When memories of our lives together became acute and intense, I breathed. I breathed through each wave of yearning, of regret, of guilt, of what-could-have-been. Every time I asked him, "Where are you?" A quiet voice immediately responded, "I am here. I have never left you." I did not only lose a partner. I lost my childhood all over again. I lost my soul mate. I lost the accepting father and the gentle mother that he was to me. I lost the dream of a "normal life," which I had tried so hard to achieve. Now I had to face my own mind. — Dang Nghiem

Jay Cee's ugly as sin. — Sylvia Plath

Sex is always good, isn't it? Well, actually it's not always good, but it's always a good thing. — Marc Jacobs

Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago. — Dougray Scott

I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. — George Saunders

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us. — Wendell Berry

How beautiful the tragic seems when it is beneath a mask, but when it appears so nakedly before me and... when I am so forcibly implicated... I don't know whether I care for it so much. Somehow or other it is as though I were torturing myself.

("Thirty-Three Abominations") — Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time. — Miller Barber

We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference. — Jack Dangermond

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption. — Mahatma Gandhi

Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant. — A. Edward Newton

We were taught that the French were our archenemies, that the Italians were traitors, that Austria had lost the First World War only because of a "stab in the back" - but I must tell you, we were never sure who had done the stabbing. — Edith Hahn Beer

Conformity is the enemy of friendship — Richard Peck