Evening The Examen Quotes & Sayings

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it. — Imelda May

Courage is an imaginary construct that people have made to hide their inferiority. — Rakesh Satyal

Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of the natural deeds of the body such as eating and drinking; but it refers to the sinful actions that are done by the body arising from the temptations and injections of Satan or the corrupt dictates of our own sinful heart. — Christopher Love

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left. — John Cage

I somehow cling to the strange fancy, that, in all men hiddenly reside certain wondrous, occult properties - as in some plants and minerals - which by some happy but very rare accident (as bronze was discovered by the melting of the iron and brass at the burning of Corinth) may change to be called forth here on earth. — Herman Melville

I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance. — Jennifer Aniston

Life begins when you learn that life is an opportunity. — Debasish Mridha

Polish you potentials so as to shine your credentials — Ikechukwu Joseph

Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology. — James Hillman

When she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural — Lewis Carroll

If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you have said this day, what you have done and thought, for in these things perhaps you have often offended God and those about you. — Thomas A Kempis

Maxon, that's not going to happen," I whispered into his neck. "If anything, you're going to realize I'm not good enough."
His lips were at my ear. "Darling, you're perfect. — Kiera Cass

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity. — Chaim Potok

Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home. — Stephen King

Nobody will buy a half-cooked food! — Israelmore Ayivor