Careifree Quotes & Sayings

I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid. — Robert Charles Wilson

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me; it is your simplicity and being you. — M.F. Moonzajer

It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise everything and everyone would be speaking once more, and the chatter would spread from humans to things. Rilke privileges two categories of 'entities' [Seienden), to express it in the papery diction of philosophy, that are eligible for the lofty task of acting as message-things - artifices and living creatures - with the latter gaining their particular quality from the former, as if animals were being's highest works of art before humans. Inherent to both is a message energy that does not activate itself, but requires the poet as a decoder and messenger. — Peter Sloterdijk

To look at him was to want him.
To see him was to ache to touch him.
He had been built to please, and trained to pleasure. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Gardens don't grow by themselves; they need to be tended and cultivated and weeded. The same is true of a marriage. — Billy Graham

A visitor to Santa: Which one is Mr Banta's flat? Santa: Please come with me. The visitor is taken to the third floor. The visitor rings the bell and there is no response. He repeatedly rings the doorbell and still no one answers. Visitor: I think he is not in. Santa: Yeah, he has gone out. He'll be back in the evening. — .Santa

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history. — Marianne Vos

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit. — Plutarch

The way we treat people we think can't help or hurt us - like housekeepers, waiters, and secretaries - tells more about our character than how we treat people we think are important. How we behave when we think no one is looking or when we don't think we will get caught more accurately portrays our character than what we say or do in service of our reputations. — Michael Josephson

Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. But the error lies in inferring that a snapshot is a lasting picture. What women and men do at a moment in time tells us nothing about what women and men are in some unvarying sense - or about what they can be. — Carol Tavris

My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist. — Tim Scott

On Genres: Do not label me. Do not place me in a box, because when you do, you place limits on my imagination and limits on my creativity, when there are none... — Sean Thomas