Guidone Customs Quotes & Sayings

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She had been built to feel nothing, and trained to feel even less. They had made her incomplete ... She was a broken doll, dancing on the end of their strings. — Dan Wells

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred — Aja Monet

A certain man who was learning archery faced the target with two arrows in his hand. But his instructor said, ' A beginner ought never to have a second arrow; for as long as he relies upon the other, he will be careless with his first one. At each shot he ought to think that he is bound to settle it with this particular shaft at any cost.' Doubtless he would not intentionally act foolishly before his instructor with one arrow, when he has but a couple. But, though he may not himself realize that he is being careless, his teacher knows it.
You should bear this advice in mind on every occasion. (In the same way) he who follows the path of learning thinks confidently in the evening that the morning is coming, and in the morning that the evening is coming, and that he will then have plenty of time to study more carefully ; less likely still is he to recognize the waste of a single moment. How hard indeed is it to do a thing at once-now, the instant that you think of it ! — Yoshida Kenko

The rage for swiftness which is so characteristic of this restless time has been extended to fashions of reading. One effect of the modern habit of swift and careless reading is seen in the impatience with which anything is regarded which is not to be taken in at a glance. — Arlo Bates

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors
is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward. — Alan Kay

Tolstoy does not tell us how things look to the author; he tells us how they look to the characters. In short, he does not use simile and metaphor. (That astonishing assertion in Wood's review is what got me started reading Tolstoy in the first place. How can anyone write without using metaphor and simile? That would be like - never mind.) — John Mark Reynolds

The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered. — Pablo Picasso

I took a gulp of air and finally faced the truth-I was in love with Evan Mathews. — Rebecca Donovan

She had a different kind of boldness, a strength that did not defy that of men so much as ignore it, or take its place without question beside it - Urdda wanted some of that boldness. — Margo Lanagan

The first dishonest act is the most important one to prevent. — Dan Ariely

Regardless of what language it is said in, "I love you" stays beautiful, and two hearts beating together make the same sound. It is the language of Love. — Christina Engela

Will interrupts him. "What do you know about people on the autism spectrum?" Owen — Leta Blake