Construant Quotes & Sayings

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying? — Roger L'Estrange

Lately I have come to believe that an as yet undiscovered human need and even a property of matter is the desire for revelation. The truth within us has a way of coming out despite all conscious efforts to conceal it. I have heard stories from those in the generation after the war, all speaking of the same struggle to ferret truth from the silence of their parents so that they themselves could begin to live. — Susan Griffin

You don't need freaking makeup. I hate that crap anyway. Women should just embrace their natural state. All that gloppy shit is unnecessary. You're beautiful - you - not some shit that you — Kathryn Perez

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience. — Thomas More

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears. — Dorothy Dix

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance. — Julius Caesar

One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises. — John Piper

Those who won our independence ... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. — Louis D. Brandeis

Ivan Fyodorovich had long been feeling an intense hatred for him, before he even thought about him, and suddenly he became aware of him. He at once felt an irresistible desire to bring his fist down on the little peasant. Just at that moment they came abreast of each other, and the little peasant, staggering badly, suddenly lurched full force into Ivan. The latter furiously shoved him away. The little peasant flew back and crashed like a log against the frozen ground, let out just one painful groan: "O-oh!" and was still. Ivan stepped up to him. He lay flat on his back, quite motionless, unconscious. "He'll freeze!" Ivan thought, and strode off again to Smerdyakov. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was no good at being a child. — A.S. Byatt

All your fears are byproducts of identification. You love a person and with the love, in the same parcel, comes fear- the person may leave you. — Osho

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up. — Bebe Neuwirth

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier. — Terry Bradshaw

Lori's stomach let out a growl of anticipation as she walked up Jenny's front path, the smell coming from inside was mouth-watering, and having only eating a few slices of bread she was ravenous.
Just as Lori went to knock on the door, Jenny pulled it open with a flourish. Dressed in head to toe paisley, great swathes of silk and chiffon billowed around her.
'Va va voom! You look absolutely stunning darling. Now come straight in and help me with Skippy. I'm having a little trouble getting him into the oven. — Bec Johnson