Improvidently Granted Quotes & Sayings

Moira wished she spoke better Russian so that she could talk to Tekla about her ideas regarding appearance and grooming. The facial scars put her well outside the norms of feminine beauty and she had doubled down by electing to keep the buzz cut. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, she was, to put it bluntly, kind of hot. Moira hated to say it. But hotness was a part of the human condition and it was pointless to pretend that it did not exist. — Neal Stephenson

Life is one big transition. — Willie Stargell

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action. — Helen Suzman

You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in. — Frederick Lenz

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I find that break-ups are so much easier when you can hate the person. — Lizzy Caplan

When we seek from Zen (or from any spiritual path) the fulfillment of our fantasies, we separate from the earth and sky, from our loved ones, from our aching backs and hearts, from the very soles of our feet. Such fantasies insulate us for a time; yet in ten thousand ways reality intrudes, and our lives become anxious scurrying, quiet desperation, confusing melodrama. — Charlotte Joko Beck

We have got to use every opportunity to improve individually so we can improve collectively. — Nick Saban

Like" and "like" and "like"
but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing? — Virginia Woolf

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — W. H. Auden

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter. — Michael Dorn