Davance Private Quotes & Sayings

Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone. — Agatha Christie

He remembered Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife of the world and to live out Your brief time without fear All this I cannot do. — Madeleine Thien

As long as you're delivering God's message, don't worry about how old you are. When you open that Bible, you're over two thousand years old! — Warren W. Wiersbe

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. — Agnes Repplier

But for the first time, Boaz couldn't think of a single word to describe this kind of loneliness, so scary and real it required an entirely different language, new and strange and yet to be invented — Molly Antopol

the eyes see faster than the hand moves — RaeAnne Thayne

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it. — Criss Jami

Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science. — Virginia Postrel

Large people tend to have large heads. Men are no cleverer than we are, Miss Sunderly. Just taller. — Frances Hardinge

He seemed to be having a staring contest with one of the candles — Kim Harrington

The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come. — Joyce Carol Oates