Cordial Related Quotes & Sayings

It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. They are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into higher spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still, and men of genius, who partake sometimes of each character, are rare also. Yes, on the whole , it is, perhaps, harder to be a great sinner than a great saint. — Arthur Machen

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamp-light. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world. — Jamaica Kincaid

Wait? Is she trying to intimidate me? Because if she is ... it just might work. Bitch be scary. — Victoria Scott

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness. — Theodore Parker

Eternity: for all its invisibility, we gaze at it. — Muriel Barbery

I moved out to New Zealand to live as I thought the warmth and peace and quiet would help me. I went away and changed my whole life routine. — Michael Crawford

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity. — Emile M. Cioran

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common. — John Locke

It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing. — Michelle Bachelet

How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?
Why don't you stay sober today?
We didn't come to New York to stay sober. — Dashiell Hammett

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Who couldn't believe there's a God? — Paul Walker

If something isn't working for you, then something else is working for you. Every situation is repairable if we choose not to be impaired or despaired. — Art Hochberg

Go with your first thoughts; they're usually your best thoughts. Pay attention, stick to your goals and follow those guidelines. It's all right there if you reach for it, unless you want to punch timeclocks and work for somebody. That's what we liked about America, the land of opportunity. All your dreams can come true. — Rick Danko