Diaphanous Dresses Quotes & Sayings

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. — Benjamin Franklin

The Marshall Plan had stopped the Communists, had brought the European nations back from destruction and decay, had performed an economic miracle; and there was, given the can-do nature of Americans, a tendency on their part to take perhaps more credit than might be proper for the actual operation of the Marshall Plan, a belief that they had done it and controlled it, rather than an admission that it had been the proper prescription for an economically weakened Europe and that it was the Europeans themselves who had worked the wonders. — David Halberstam

Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm. — David Whyte

Joshua needed to eat something before embarking upon it, and hence stood in line behind an overtattooed prick who couldn't decide between banana and pumpkin bread, while the barista in a Che Guevara hat (yet presumably fluent in Middle fucking English) looked on indifferently. — Aleksandar Hemon

I felt my throat start to close up, and I didn't think I was getting enough oxygen. I was scared, and I thought about quitting. But you don't want to quit when you've trained so hard and long for one race. — Deena Kastor

Conviction in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential. — Adam M. Grant

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation. — Joseph Conrad

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe. — David McCord

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time. — Vladimir Nabokov

One of the half-caste's few vices was a prodigious vanity. Yet this vanity was based on concrete results. — Arthur W. Upfield

A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society. — Santosh Kalwar

I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in. — Olga Kurylenko

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. — Herman Melville