Factitiousness Quotes & Sayings

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. — Gabriel Zaid

There's a lot that can be said about holding hands. Such a simple gesture, and yet it yells things. This person is mine, it says. It anchors two people together and keeps them rooted. Hands tell complicated stories, and by holding hands, the stories are combined. Lifeline to lifeline. — R.K. Ryals

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing. — Suzanne Vega

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness. — Iris Murdoch

Consider that worrying excessively about another person, especially a loved one, is a destructive act. It causes you emotional distress which prevents you from being at your best and contributing at the levels you're capable of. Instead of worrying, focus on accepting what is out of your control, and actively changing all that you can. — Hal Elrod

When Eugenia turns the experiences of Thecla over in her heart, we know she is thinking about how Thecla's experience measures against her own. And of course our writer is reaching out to his or her own reader here: just as Eugenia was changed by Thecla's story, so the reader's own life should be somehow changed by Eugenia's. — Kate Cooper

Continued traveling is far from productive. It begins with wearing away the soles of the shoes, and making the feet sore, and erelong it will wear a man clean up, after making his heart sore into the bargain. I have observed that the afterlife of those who have traveled much is very pathetic. — Henry David Thoreau

Just because you are idle, don't assume God is. — Max Lucado

Spirituality leads to success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Fight back and learn to be fearless. — Kristen Ashley

Where are we going? You never told me."
"My home in Romania."
Wow, this guy wasn't kidding with his Dracula fixation. — Jeaniene Frost

You have a calling, but this does not mean that you must start your ministry immediately — Sunday Adelaja

Factitiousness of society freezes the stars. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence. — Ed Greenwood