Diligentemente Quotes & Sayings

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks. — Kahlil Gibran

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents ... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn ... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society. — Charles Handy

About three women a day are murdered by spouses or ex-spouses in this country. — Rebecca Solnit

How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? — Irving Berlin

City squares are planned absences - they're defined, first of all, by what they're not [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"]. — Catie Marron

I have the loose-ended feeling of looking, looking. What am I looking for? Looking for substance, looking for a moment I do not understand. Is that just how this part of life is? Do we ever have the sensation of finding, of arriving? I worry that life is always in the future and I am always here, in the preamble, straightening up the cushions so that life will go smoothly once it does begin. — Priya Parmar

Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart. — Victor Hugo

To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him. — John Lancaster Spalding

Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions. — Jack Vance

Prophecy is the gift of God and everyone has a smidge of it. — Stephen King

A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit. — King C. Gillette

He couldn't help it - he was in love by the time she left the kitchen - but love made him feel sad and doomed, as usual. What he didn't know was that she'd suffered through a decade of cool, commitment-phobic men, and Lars's kindness, but mostly his effusive, overt enthusiasm for her, was at that time exactly what she wanted in a partner. — J. Ryan Stradal

We're obsessed with filling in the blank for a Mad Libs line that goes: "_ makes us human." Why? Scratch and sniff the "what makes us human" obsession and you get a strong whiff of something that could fit into that blank: our insecurity. — Carl Safina

I went out and got little jobs. I was selling candy as a teenager, selling newspapers. But as I got older, I didn't want to sell that anymore. I wanted to make more money. — Snoop Dogg