Chemises Quotes & Sayings

The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something, sacrifice; but few people today in the West want to hear about that. Americans want the boon without the labyrinth.Pilgrimage starts the wheel, it turns the wheel of samsara, the wheel of life, and we have to live with the consequences. — Anthony Lawlor

We love only what we do not wholly possess. — Marcel Proust

He had relieved whores beyond counting of frocks, stays, chemises, garters, and stockings. He had never before in his life unbuttoned a gently bred maiden's glove. He'd committed salacious acts beyond number. He'd never before felt so depraved as he did now, as the last pearl came free and he drew the soft kid down, baring her wrist, and his dark fingers grazed the delicate skin he'd exposed. — Loretta Chase

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens. — Peter Schjeldahl

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us
when we stop, we darken. — Jan Karon

I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan. — Burton Rascoe

Vision -
You dream the impossible;
You imagine the incredible;
You achieve the extraordinary. — Tim Hawkins