Exulting Def Quotes & Sayings

When I was younger, I was more self-conscious about living up to or surpassing the expectations of others. But as you get older, you start to build confidence. — Ivanka Trump

I'm a butterfingers, and I always have been.'
'An angel's foot got in your way,' Codswallop said. 'That's what my mother used to tell us when we returned to the house with scrapes on our knees. — Eloisa James

Reason would say so, if what you say is true. But creatures may be intelligent and not reasonable. Our forefathers were presumably intelligent, yet they were certainly not reasonable. Was it reasonable to destroy almost all their tremendous civilization in atomic warfare over causes our historians can no longer accurately determine? — Warren Lapine

Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day. — Uta Ranke-Heinemann

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique. — Billie Jean King

In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law. . .
(Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3) — William Shakespeare

My impulse now, as then, is to disagree. The majority of people in this country who haunt bookstores, go to readings and book festivals or simply read in the privacy of their homes are not traumatized exiles. — Azar Nafisi

I've seen all the Batman movies in the theater opening weekend. I was a big Batman fan, definitely. — Robin Lord Taylor

Console yourself not with the lie that your foe is weak, or stupid, or evil. Sometimes the enemy is worthy. Sometimes his cause is just. Sometimes both sides are right in their own ways-and in the hour that just causes collide, good men will rise up and leap into the fray, and the clash of their meeting will shake the heavens. And their blood will flow like rivers. — Holly Lisle

Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change. — Ashton Applewhite

The incarnation is not a soul into a body, it is an illusory world known as a life into consciousness. — One Iam

Here in this endless and gleaming wilderness
I was removed farther than ever from the world of men
And I never saw so close and so clearly
The image in the mirror of my own soul. — Hermann Hesse