Festones Quotes & Sayings

For we constantly deal with practical problems, with moulders, contractors, derricks, stonemen, trucks, rubbish, plasterers and what-not-else, all the while trying to soar into the blue. — Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually nonconformist as existing in a state of incurable mortal sin that can incidentally cause floods and earthquakes. — Christopher Hitchens

Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us? The — Ruta Sepetys

Like a spider web that you walk into, it is not so easy to get all the tendrils of real love off after you have passed through it. — Jonathan Carroll

Words, too, have genuine substance
mass and weight and specific gravity. — Tim O'Brien

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style. — Camilla Belle

A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians. — David Lloyd-Jones

Nurturing your own development isn't selfish. It's actually a great gift to other people. — Rick Hanson

Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered to her. 'There's got to be at least one more woman like you. — Toni Morrison

Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground. — Laini Taylor

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism. — Marvin J. Ashton

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university. — Stephen A. Schwarzman

We're not just any star stuff, most of which is humdrum hydrogen and listless helium. Our bodies include fancier ingredients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and a few other herbs and spices. — Seth Shostak