Confluence Smart Quotes & Sayings

A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing ... There's no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself. — Molly Harper

Alyosha, was not at all a fanatic, and, in my view at least, even not at all a mystic. I will give my full opinion beforehand: he was simply an early lover of mankind,1 and if he threw himself into the monastery path, it was only because it alone struck him at the time and presented him, so to speak, with an ideal way out for his soul struggling from the darkness of worldly wickedness towards the light of love. And this path struck him only because on it at that time he met a remarkable being, in his opinion, our famous monastery elder Zosima, to whom he became attached with all the ardent first love of his unquenchable heart. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If we hope for any kind of lasting peace or balance
during transition, we must go for the root. — Ngina Otiende

You grow. You are large.
You are a 19th century poem.
All of America is inside you,
a catalogue of lives and land
and burrowing things.
-From "Catalogue — Donika Kelly

My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Been having a fight with your blankets, Septimus?" A familiar voice echoed down the chimney. "Looks like you lost," the voice continued with a chuckle. "Not wise to take on a pair of blankets, lad. One, maybe, but two blankets always gang up on you. Vicious things, blankets. — Angie Sage

Figure out what you believe in and what you're willing to fight for, then figure out what your special talents are and apply them to it. — Mark Deklin

In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like, 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes ... ' I was an idiot ... It's a decade of tears. — Melissa McCarthy

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed ... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. — Saint Augustine

For no one walks the world in armature but must have terror striking at his heart. — Foundation For Inner Peace

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of. — David D. Burns

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. — H.L. Mencken

He's a guy. We're easy and stupid. Just go bat your eyes at him and beg for forgiveness. It'll take five minutes ... three if you wear something low-cut. — Elle Lothlorien

She was a planet, way out in space, out of its orbit, and he was an unmanned spaceship, taking measurements of the atmosphere. She was not suitable for habitation. — Thomas Pierce

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? ... — Ernest Hemingway,