Esperienza Quotes & Sayings

Leis go brown, tectonic plates shift, deep currents move, islands vanish, rooms get forgotten. — Joan Didion

The Gospel acts without threats ... it teaches us about the supreme goodwill of God towards us. — John Calvin

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve. — Bindi Irwin

I am a woman. I don't always act rationally, especially when it's a week before my period, my brain was still strung out from orgasms, and I was looking at another woman's lipstick on my man. — Alessandra Torre

What is key to America's understanding of class is the persistent belief - despite all evidence to the contrary - that anyone, with the proper discipline and drive, can move from a lower class to a higher class. We recognize that mobility may be difficult, but the key to our collective self-image is the assumption that mobility is always possible, so failure to move up reflects on one's character. By extension, the failure of a race or ethnic group to move up reflects very poorly on the group as a whole. — Michelle Alexander

Say it back, he begs.
I don't. He offers those words so freely, I'm not sure he realizes how much weight they carry. You have to love yourself before you can love another. You have to see what they see in you. Something worthy.
I cannot return those three words to him because I am nowhere near ready to say them to myself. — Katt Sterling

Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant. — Hamza Yusuf

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me. — Hillary Clinton

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution. — William Hamilton Maxwell