Devey Backpack Quotes & Sayings

There are two truths," said Katie finally. "As a mother, I say it would have been a terrible thing for a girl to sleep with a stranger
a man she had known less than forty-eight hours. Horrible things might have happened to you. Your whole life might have been ruined. As your mother, I tell you the truth.
"But as a woman ... " she hesitated. "I will tell you the truth as a woman. It would have been a very beautiful thing. Because there is only once that you love that way. — Betty Smith

It was about acceptance, he thought. About realizing no one is perfect and no one can expect to change someone else. Which — Cammie McGovern

He turned to me, mischief glinting in his eyes. "How
do they celebrate good fortune in Bharata? In Ujijain, we kiss."
"Look elsewhere."
"Are you sure? You spend an awful amount of time looking at my
lips."
"That's only because I'm horrified at the sheer idiocy of the words
leaping out of them. — Roshani Chokshi

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul. — Chris Cleave

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style. — Norman Mailer

It is possible, as I have learned again and again, to be in one's place, in such company, wild or domestic, and with such pleasure, that one cannot think of another place that one would prefer to be - or of another place at all. One does not miss or regret the past, or fear or long for the future. Being there is simply all, and is enough. Such times give one the chief standard and the chief reason for one's work. — Wendell Berry

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty ... — Winston Churchill

Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him there is no such entity as will or will power. Nothing happens capriciously. Everything is caused by something prior, and the more we devote ourselves to the understanding of this causative network, the more free we become." ... "I'm sure he would have said that you are subject to passions that are driven by inadequate ideas rather than by the ideas that flow from a true quest for understanding the nature of reality." ... "He states explicitly that a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a more clear and distinct idea of it
that is, the causative nexus underlying the passion." p.269 — Irvin D. Yalom