Figlie Mara Quotes & Sayings

When a man is in love
how can he use old words?
Should a woman
desiring her lover
lie down with
grammarians and linguists?
I said nothing
to the woman I loved
but gathered
love's adjectives into a suitcase
and fled from all languages. — Nizar Qabbani

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind. — Ramana Maharshi

Thank you Liv ... Thank you for being the only woman ever brave enough to love me. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Family doesn't go one way. It goes every way. We help each other, we protect each other, and we die for each other, if that's what it takes. — David Estes

I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible. — Bruno Tonioli

Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!" ... "But I thought it was just the one time? — Ellen Schreiber

People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The good psychologist is ambivalent about people, because he knows well their treacherous nature, their potential for destruction, delusion and deceit. — Noam Shpancer

Sportsmanship" had been stretched too far. Like "relativity," it had migrated far afield from its original meaning. It used to refer to the kind of behavior that Lance Armstrong showed Jan Ullrich. But over time the term was stretched to include unimpressive, nonchivalrous behavior, like losing without whining too much or making it through an entire game without assaulting a referee. — Chip Heath

I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many. — Theodore Roosevelt

When Lady Rawlings first demanded to nurse her baby, she had been repulsed, certainly. The very idea of allowing a child to munch from one's private parts was instinctively revolting. But then she had been in the nursery yesterday while Esme nursed William, and it was hard to reconcile that experience with her own repulsion. — Eloisa James

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld