Florence M Kingsley Quotes & Sayings

I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily. — Alexa Vega

I'm not building a castle or a monument; I'm building a soul and a family. I'll tell stories all my life, writing on napkins and on the backs of receipts, or in books if they let me, but this is the promise I make to my God: I will never again be so careless, so cavalier with the body and soul you've given me. They are the only things in all the world that have been entrusted entirely to me, and I stewarded them poorly, worshiping for a time at the altars of productivity, capability, busyness, distraction. This body and soul will become again what God intended them to be: living sacrifices, offered only to him. I will spend my life on meaning, on connection, on love, on freedom. I will not waste one more day trapped in comparison, competition, proving, and earning. That's the currency of a culture that has nothing to offer me. It — Shauna Niequist

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status — Laurence J. Peter

My classes commenced on the seventh of September, a tall blue day as crisp as the white starched blouses of the coeds who filed into my classroom and nervously took their seats. Standing behind the lectern at eight o'clock sharp, suit fresh-pressed and chin scraped clean, I felt my nostrils flare like a stud's at the nubby tight sex of them, flustered and pink-scrubbed, giggling and moist; my tighs flexed, and I yawned ferociously. — John Barth

If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what I tell girls, and what Beckham's about: you can do it, you can do it better, and you can do it in the way you want. — Gurinder Chadha

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could. — Henrietta Szold

Peace should be the only highway of life that we should build all over the world. — Debasish Mridha

I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire. — Michael S. Horton

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation. — Daniela Pestova

All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent. — Hetty Green

Nay, a heart of love is treasure, and the best the world contains. — Florence Morse Kingsley

Naturally, this country can't stand truth. — Lewis H. Michaux

Clearly-drawn front lines have become a thing of the past due to complex locations with ubiquitous enemy threats. — Niki Tsongas