Examplars Quotes & Sayings

But he may please to consider, that the caprices of womankind are not limited by any climate or nation; and that they are much more uniform than can be easily imagined. — Jonathan Swift

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings — Euripides

I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily. — Denis Villeneuve

What is to prevent, say, an uprising? — Suzanne Collins

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite
variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite
energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not. — John Ruskin

After my parents died, it took me months before I could carry on a conversation with someone who had not known them, who expected me to be young and sparkling and untouched by grief. — Jennifer Egan

Why tinker with the plain truth that we hurry the darker races to their graves in order to take their land & its riches? Wolves don't sit in their caves, concocting crapulous theories of race to justify devouring a flock of sheep! "Intellectual courage"? True "intellectual courage" is to dispense with these fig leaves & admit all peoples are predatory, but White predators, with our deadly duet of disease dust & firearms, are examplars of predacity par excellence, & what of it? — David Mitchell

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by. — N. T. Wright

I suppose we carry photographs now, but I think it's rather wonderful that people used to carry drawings and watercolours. I wish people did that more often. — Alison Jackson

There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all matters — Philip K. Dick

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are — Samuel Johnson

What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help? — Amber Riley

The quickest solution to a problem is found on our knees. HS/el — Evinda Lepins

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. — Steven Spielberg

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day. — Branch Rickey

When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it — Swami Vivekananda