Ceciley Parker Quotes & Sayings

As Norman bride and English queen she would walk a fine line between the interests of two rulers -- her brother and her lord. Both men would demand her fealty. One, at least, would exact a heavy price if she were to prove disloyal. — Patricia Bracewell

E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower,
That Time upon her angel brow should set
His crooked autograph, and mar the jet
Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green,
The hoar frost and the canker worm destroy.
Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes. — Isaac McLellan

We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection — Anna R.

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn't sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people. — Walton Goggins

Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality. — Simone De Beauvoir

but even with the gift of tongues, I'm having trouble learning to speak hip-hop. Why is it that one can busta rhyme or busta move anywhere but you must busta cap in someone's ass? Is "ho" always feminine, and "muthafucka" always masculine, while "bitch" can be either? How many peeps in a posse, how much booty before baby got back, do you have to be all that to get all up in that, and do I need to be dope and phat to be da bomb or can I just be "stupid"? I'll not be singing over any dead mothers until I understand. The — Christopher Moore

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee. — Marcus Aurelius

Time seemed to have just gone, in big clumps, or all the day was happening at once or something, I was wondering so hard about what was to come, I was watching so hard the differences from our normal days. I wished I had more time to think, before she went right down, all the way down; my mind was going breathless, trying to get all its thinking done. — Margo Lanagan

I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same. — Vinoba Bhave