Embonpoint Vintage Quotes & Sayings

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree. — Philibert Joseph Roux

One can't save and then pitchfork souls into heaven ... Souls are more or less securely fastened to bodies ... And as you can't get the souls out and deal with them separately, you have to take them both together. — Amy Carmichael

The exact orbit of Earth is controlled by the Sun's mass and the mass of all remaining planets. An object's mass and its distance is all we need to know to completely determine the effects of its gravity on Earth. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

We often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be selfish assholes first. — Cheryl Strayed

Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool. — Kip Thorne

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist. — Edward Abbey

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices. — Timothy Keller

I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that. — John Legend

By humanism I mean first of all attempting to dissolve Blake's mind-forg'd manacles so as to be able to use one's mind historically and rationally for the purposes of reflective understanding and genuine disclosure. Moreover, humanism is sustained by a sense of community with other interpreters and other societies and periods: strictly speaking, therefore, there is no such thing as an isolated humanist. — Edward Said

Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it. — Marty Rubin

I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my ear and drowning out the voices of Self-Doubt and Self-Criticism. I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't. — Roz Savage

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars ... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers. — Eric Schmidt

Twig-minx!" it screamed. "scrap-brat! — Frances Hardinge