Exquisitas Quotes & Sayings

Having the right to choose determines whether women will find an equal place at life's table, whether children will be truly valued, and whether everyone's personal liberties, privacy, and bodily integrity will be safeguarded against the ideology of the right. — Gloria Feldt

Whether it is a speck of sand on the beach, a pebble, a rock, or a boulder, each contributes equally to the beach, for they make up a part of the beach in their own way. Each participates in the world in its own way. — Douglas James Cottrell

We must make decisions as if they affect those we've not even met because we realize they do. We must live respective of world family. — Holly Sprink

My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion. — Radhanath Swami

After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges. — Rachel Joyce

An adversity is an opportunity to exercise and maximize your creativity. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether. — Mason Cooley

I lied as a nightingale sings, ecstatically, self-obliviously; reveling in the new life-harmony which I was creating. — Vladimir Nabokov

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

Your mother contained a good spirit. A loving spirit. A spirit that will not cease to exist.
Eva looked at him, her brows furrowed.
Rovender placed his arm around Eva's shoulders. You see, she lives within you now, in all of the lessons that she taught you. Lessons you will never forget. Lessons you will always carry with you ... and will one day pass on. — Tony DiTerlizzi

Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston. — Georg Ernst Stahl

Well, I can't figure out God. — Oral Roberts

I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him. — Jessica Pare

Fear and shame are the backbone of my self-control. They are my source of inspiration, my insurance against becoming entirely unacceptable. They help me do the right thing. And I am terrified of what I would be without them. Because I suspect that, left to my own devices, I would completely lose control of my life. I'm still hoping that perhaps someday I'll learn how to use willpower like a real person, but until that very unlikely day, I will confidently battle toward adequacy, wielding my crude skill set of fear and shame. — Allie Brosh