Fausta Quotes & Sayings

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women. — Ouida

There are people who are drawn to secrets as ants are to jam. Fausta's one of them. She searches out all things unspoken and unseen-not to make them known, but to destroy them so that nobody knows they ever existed. That's what makes her heart beat faster, the destruction of invisible foundations. Why? Because she finds it funny. — Helen Oyeyemi

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is. — Ioan Gruffudd

It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have. — Alan Ladd

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured. — Francoise Sagan

My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I've decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there ... Do you identify with a distaste/fear about sentimentality? Do you agree that, past a certain line, such distaste can turn everything arch and sneering and too ironic? Or do you have your own set of abstract questions to drive yourself nuts with? — David Foster Wallace

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write. — Nigel Kneale

The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed. — Vivienne Westwood

They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles. — Augustin Misago

In the end he'll find out what's going on with me, since we still have the rest of our lives. Maybe not ahead of us, maybe just today, but we do have our lives, there's no doubt about that. — Ingeborg Bachmann

We're more RESILIENT. Takes a LOT to destroy a human spirit. — J. Michael Straczynski

Rewrite your tale of woe as a tale of wow — Karen Salmansohn

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. — Jane Jacobs