Ladyness Quotes & Sayings

I've started dreaming in Spanish, which has never happened before. I wake up feeling different, like something inside me is changing, something chemical and irreversible. There's a magic here working its way through my veins. There's something about the vegetation, too, that I respond to instinctively - the stunning bougainvillea, the flamboyants and jacarandas, the orchids growing from the trunks of the mysterious ceiba trees. And I love Havana, its noise and decay and painted ladyness. I could happily sit on one of those wrought-iron balconies for days, or keep my grandmother company on her porch, with its ringside view of the sea. I'm afraid to lose all this, to lose Abuela Celia again. But sooner or later I'd have to return to New York. I know now it's where I belong - not instead of here, but more than here. How can I tell my grandmother this? — Cristina Garcia

most people have better things to do than bother Sylvester, who has a history of permanent solutions to temporary annoyances. — Seanan McGuire

When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner. — Vince Gill

Suddenly, I see the other side of choice. Of all of us having it. Sometimes we will choose wrong. — Ally Condie

I don't feel like it's pressure. It's more of an obligation - not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there's got to be a lightness in your leg. You have to be as light as you can be, and you don't have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something. — Bill Murray

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. — Oscar Wilde

In that blood, dwelt the soul of the holy Son of God. — Andrew Murray

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. — William Kirby

I can't stop thinking about what might have been ... I can't stop imagining the two of us together. My body burns at the thought of it. Sephy and I might've been together for ever.
- Callum McGregor — Malorie Blackman

If we take care of our neighbors,
our neighbors will take care of us.
If we take care of our friends,
our friends will take care of us.
If we take care of our family,
our family will take care of us.
If we take care of others,
our God will take care of us. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies. — Ernst Mach

Great praxis demands great piety. — Sallie McFague