Diversely Quotes & Sayings

Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's. — William Penn

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. — Gerrit Smith

Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord upward flies. For Prayer the ocean is where diversely Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast; Where all our interests so discordant be That half beg winds by which the rest are lost. By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven; In Praise we nobly give what God may take, And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven. — William Davenant

From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire of his opal eyes, Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, Taking my measure, steadily. — Charles Baudelaire

I am empowered by self-knowledge, by ownership of my experiences, and by all aspects of myself. — Maureen Brady

I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch. — William Butler Yeats

And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy. — Carine Roitfeld

I've always been a sucker for the beautiful and the batshit. — Daryl Gregory

Regrets don't help anything. — Sue Monk Kidd

Like most modern words, "Heresy" is used both vaguely and diversely. It is used vaguely because the modern mind is as averse to precision in ideas as it is enamored of precision in measurement. It is used diversely because, according to the man who uses it, it may represent any one of fifty things. — Hilaire Belloc

The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind. — Cory Doctorow

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity
their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought. — Edith Wharton

Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right. — Donald A. Norman

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. — Alexander Pope

You can't change other people's attitudes, but you can change how you react to those people. — Michael Lawrence

There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names. — Giordano Bruno

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty. — Will Durant

All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could. — Ram Dass

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order. — Georges Bataille