Cuiusvis Quotes & Sayings

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back. — John Edgar Wideman

George Clooney sort of lost his 'George Clooney-ness' the first day I met him. He's not George Clooney in my eyes - he's George from Kentucky with an awesome, awesome heart. — Shailene Woodley

Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort, to make me a handsome man?"
It would be past the power of magic, sir;" and, in thought, I added,"a loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather, your sternness has a power beyond beauty." Mr. Rochester had sometimes read my unspoken thoughts with an acumen to me incomprehensible: in the presnt instance he took no notice of my abrupt vocal response; but he smiled at me with a certain smile he had of his own, and which he used but on rare occasions. He seemed to think too good for common purpose: it was the real sunshine of feeling-he shed it over me now. — Charlotte Bronte

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body. — Mahatma Gandhi

When women are restricted from the service of God in any capacity, the Church is mistakenly allowing an imperfect male-dominated ancient culture to drive our understanding and practice of Christ's redeeming work, instead of Jesus Christ and the whole of the Scriptures. — Sarah Bessey

We live in an age where technology is so powerful that we can make change without even leaving our computers or cell phones. — Sadie Calvano

The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence. — James T. Shotwell

For decades Southie had been immigrant Irish against the world, fighting first a losing battle againsnt shameful discrimination from the Yankee merchhants who had run Boston for centuries and then another one against mindless bureaucrats and an obdurate federal judge who imposed school busing on the "town" that hated outsiders to begin with. Both clashes were the kind of righteous fight that left residents the way they liked to be: bloodied but unbowed. The shared battles reaffirmed a view of life: never trust outsiders and never forget where you come from. — Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill

In religion the Future is behind us. In art the Present is the eternal. — Okakura Kakuzo

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards — Frances G. Wickes

Do you ever tell the truth?"
"Once. In fourth grade. It was overrated. — Gemma Halliday

Jesus may love you, but i'm his favourite — Darynda Jones

Writer. Another word for poor. — Buffy Andrews

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role. — Raul Julia

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine. — Dale Carnegie