Kyprogeneia Quotes & Sayings

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified. — Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

As a general rule, highly rational writers (like Nabokov) write most comfortably in the morning, and mainly intuitive writers write most comfortably at night. — John Gardner

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean. — Radclyffe Hall

We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of balance by anger, hatred, grief, or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien. — Swami Paramananda

Charisma is a word that erodes stale on the page. When compared with the tangible, flesh experience it tries to label, it falls short. The only way to understand it, is to meet it. — Brian D'Ambrosio

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality. — Elizabeth Bowen

I promise to plant kisses like seeds on you body, so in time you can grow to love yourself as I love you. — Tyler Knott Gregson

In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia
because I prayed
this word:
I want. — Sappho

Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why. — William Kittredge

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures ... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway. — Mindy Kaling

Once you admit to yourself that you are or aren't something, then you can begin searching for the reason why," Deuce went on. "And once you've found that, you can begin to take steps toward making it better. So, tell yourself you're an asshole, stop being an asshole, your problem's solved," Deuce said in a pleased voice. — Abigail Roux

Sound is the first thing that we tune into. — Lee Konitz

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless. — Nirmala Srivastava