Exquisita Presencia Quotes & Sayings

Our cage
We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely. — William Shakespeare

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Having friends was really important, wasn't it? Even if sometimes they did stuff which upset you? — Helen Salter

I lost Ike,' Aunt Josephine said, 'and I lost Lake Lachrymose. I mean, I didn't really lose it, of course. It's still down in the valley. But I grew up on its shores. I used to swim in it every day. I know which beaches were sandy and which were rocky. I knew all the islands in the middle of its waters and all the caves alongside it's shore. Lake Lachrymose felt like a friend to me. But when it took poor Ike away from me I was too afraid to go near it anymore. I stopped swimming in it. I never went to the beach again. I even put away all my books about it. The only way I can bear to look at it is from the Wide Window in the Library. — Lemony Snicket

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth. — Walid Jumblatt

Obediance, when it flows out of genuine love for Jesus Christ, is never wasted and never regretted. — Leslie Ludy

He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave. — Cormac McCarthy

In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection. — Hugo Rossi

Relationships should be built on trust and truth. — Sophie Kinsella

A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. — George Herbert

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can. — Ian McKellen

What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"? — Blue Balliett

Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms. — August Weismann

The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it's this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It's a fascinating contrast. — Tony Hale

God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake. — Abraham Joshua Heschel