Quotes & Sayings About Being A Southern Gentleman

People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The Lord chose to give me back my life, not because I deserved it, but because he had work for me to do. — Shirley Corder

Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant. — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen. — Arlen Specter

Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust. — John Ruskin

Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty; she looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age. We may add in parenthesis that to preserve all this is the only means of retaining beauty to old age. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative. — Charles Bukowski

Industry without art is brutality. — Ananda Coomaraswamy

I don't recall God ever saying you couldn't be 'cool'. It's only a problem if you esteem 'coolness' above that which is righteous and true, which is, when we give it its way, really what many of us do. 'Coolness' is too transient to be of any real and meaningful, lasting significance, and it is often in great conflict with one being one's honest, most vulnerable self. That, and in reality, some of the coolest people are actually those who least concern themselves with being 'cool' anyway, those who make 'trying to be cool' less evident. — Criss Jami

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. — Henry James

Why was the world so obsessed with sameness? — Tara Kelly