Cursalia Quotes & Sayings

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? — Confucius

We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices. — Mark Bailey

Make not your thoughts your prisons. — William Shakespeare

It's not that humans and non-humans are identical ... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding many people have about animals today. When slaves were brought over from Africa, many people believed they were not humans, that they didn't have feelings. Many people believe that primates and other animals don't have feelings, too, but they do. — Jane Goodall

It's as though the shadows were an ocean, and the tide has gone out leaving a barren, rigid landscape of empty streets. — Lauren Oliver

People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time. — Craig Brown

Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones. — Dorothy Hamill

Your hurt is not an excuse to take.
Your loneliness is not an excuse to cheat.
Your desire is not a reason to rape.
You raped me, and now, I'm going to rape you. — Courtney C. Stevens

Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated. — Bill Shankly

Bootlicking is only a way to get published, not to become a writer — Himmilicious

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I looked at mother with adoration in my own eyes, and when she had taken the kerosene lamp and had gone away, and when we boys were all again curled quietly like sleeping puppies in the bed, I cried a little, as I am sure father must have cried sometimes when there was no one about. Perhaps his getting drunk, as he did on all possible occasions, was a way of crying too. — Sherwood Anderson

In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew? — Edmund White

I will never do anything you don't want to do. You're safe with me, Shannon. — Samantha Young