Fitzwilliams Institute Quotes & Sayings

Loving yourself is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become if you try to withdraw from your own ideas? Loving yourself is not a matter of building your ego. Egotism is proving you are worthwhile after you have sunk into hating yourself. Loving yourself will dissolve your ego: you will feel no need to prove you are superior. — Thaddeus Golas

Maverick texted her throughout the day making sure she was okay, and who knew that the word fuck could sound so sweet? I'm fucking worried about you. He'll fucking pay if he hurts you. IS IT 5OFUCKINGCLOCK YET? That one came complete with a winky face.And when a big tough biker dude sent you shouty caps and a winky face, it could make you smile. — Laura Kaye

Do not dehumanize others. — Gary Kemp

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,
the clown unread, or half-read gentleman. — John Dryden

He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a whole universe lay at his fingertips, but the fraction of it he could explore in an entire lifetime was so negligible that he was sometimes overwhelmed with despair. — Arthur C. Clarke

I've never got to the bottom of streaking — Jonathan Agnew

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self ... — Susanna Rowson

Don't order the fish," Yancy advised Merry when they sat down. "But it's a seafood joint." "More like a petri dish with menus. When they say 'catch of the day,' they mean infection." Brennan — Carl Hiaasen

When you go the extra mile, people will know, and that knowing changes everything about how they feel about what you do. — Bernadette Jiwa

I'm impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man. — Donna Lynn Hope

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising," announced Lord Peter sententiously, "is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow. — Dorothy L. Sayers

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too. — Samuel Wilberforce

The thing I like most about flying in space is not the view. The thing I like about it is doing something I feel very, very strongly about. — Scott Kelly

I look up at the sky.
I see a cloud passing just under the sun.
The top is all electric white.
I remind myself.
Don't give up, I think. Not just yet. — Matthew Quick