Illumed Quotes & Sayings

More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look — Mindy Kaling

How can we talk about the rights of a fertilized egg when we don't care enough to see that every child is born into a stable, safe, and nurturing environment? — Rebecca Warner

Vice is a wonderful thing," Catherine said. "The people who go in for it seem to have good taste about it. — Ernest Hemingway,

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions. — David Bezmozgis

I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life. — Willie Morris

I'm an expert in homo sapiens behavior. They can rationalize anything. Take war. They'll bankrupt their economies, sacrifie the best of their young, unleash a bloodbath that impresses even me, at the expense of providing shelter, food, and medicine for their own people. Compared to that, the sale of a few women is trivial. — Mario Acevedo

There is just something about women who spend hours and hours knitting a sweater with mind-blowingly expensive yarn, when they could just buy a sweater for a fraction of the price - not to mention the time saved doing so - that lends itself to acceptance and patience for the human condition. — Penny Reid

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism. — Mary McCarthy

The writer is a kind of hawk; he goes round in the skies, constantly looking with his sharp eyes for the character that he can pick up with his claws. Sometimes he goes round hungry for a week, he cannot catch any characters; and sometimes characters rain on him like heavy rain. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality. — Alfred North Whitehead

Darkness shrouded everything and the only light was the strange pulse of lightning that illumed the sky like a distress beacon. A dying world signaling for help to the ancient Starcrafter who created it. — C.J. Anderson

This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us. — Marc Forne Molne

I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. — Common

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Don't think I couldn't see the love in his eyes when he looked at you. He would have fought to the death for you, that handsome Valten Gerstenberg. — Melanie Dickerson

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold. — Florence Welch

Departing summer hath assumed
An aspect tenderly illumed,
The gentlest look of spring;
That calls from yonder leafy shade
Unfaded, yet prepared to fade,
A timely carolling. — William Wordsworth