Constienti Quotes & Sayings

A word, after all, is a kind of magic. It locks the substance of a thing in sound or symbol, and affixes it to the ear, or paper, or stone. Words call the world into being. That's power indeed. — Kelly Barnhill

Something has to get you back to prayer, and in my experience, the surest thing in either case is desperation. — Shauna Niequist

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight. — Kim Edwards

It was as though our invaders had passed the word through the galaxies: SEE OLD EARTH NOW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. — Robert Silverberg

He still wasn't looking at me, which meant I was still in trouble. I swear, sometimes this partnership is like being married. We fight all the time and neither one of us is getting married. — John G. Hartness

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished — Carol Ann Tomlinson

If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live? — Margaret Cho

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship. — Marcel Proust

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. — Walt Whitman

Life makes love look hard. — Taylor Swift

A teacher must be greater than his students; a student must aspire to be greater than his teacher. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe. — Frederick Lenz

The blood that ran down from the cross in redemption for all sins and penance for all sorrows - that was the visible sign. — Sigrid Undset

I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I've done. — Charles Kelley

One aspect of play is the importance of laughter, which has physiological and psychological benefits. Did you know that there are thousands of laughter clubs around the world? People get together and laugh for no reason at all! — Daniel H. Pink