Deseret News Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous? — John Lyly

When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying. — Abdellatif Kechiche

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism. — Sigmund Freud

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself. — Mason Cooley

I don't think evil is sexy! I don't think being cruel and mean and hurting other people is sexy! ... Although I have been quite attracted to some very bad boys! — Madonna Ciccone

Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius. — Stephen Richards

The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews. — Richard Dawkins

It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out. — Kate Christensen

If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers. — Anna Julia Cooper

In order to deliver people we need to have a strategy, to have a plan of deliverance — Sunday Adelaja

She was a diamond in a quarry full of quartz. — Evelyn Skye

I came here for you."
"Why?"
"Because I want to kiss you. — Jay McLean