Locurcio Midland Quotes & Sayings

To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date. — Marcel Proust

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

You cannot have a testimony without a test. Will you pass the test or have the monies? — Joyce Meyer

Those who look down on other Christians because they lack a particular gift or experience, or those who despise a particular gift and look down on Christians who have it, are not demonstrating spiritual maturity. — Craig S. Keener

You could do this every day for the next ten years and you still would not have killed as many things as I have. — Mark Tufo

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. — Voltaire

Nobody had ever tried to stop me in June as long as I could remember, and when you are nine years old, what you remember seems forever; for you remember everything and everything is important and stands bigs and full and fills up Time and is so solid that you can walk around and around it like a tree and look at it. You are aware that times passes, that there is a movement in time, but that is not what Time is. Time is not a movement, a flowing, a wind then, but is, rather, a kind of climate in which things are, and when a thing happens it begins to live and keeps on living and stands solid in Time like the tree that you can walk around."
from "Blackberry Winter — Robert Penn Warren

If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for? — Donna Lynn Hope

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should. — Matt Gonzalez

Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an open set of features, well formed by nature, modeled by art to the usual rules of courtesy, yet so far frank and honest, that they seemed as if they disclaimed to conceal the natural working of the soul. — Walter Scott

You've got to be stupid to heckle me - I am very equipped to win. — Lewis Black

Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black. — Paulo Coelho

Would any grown girl in Russia be frightened by a "room of horror"? Westerner's lives are too calm and peaceful, is makes them afraid of all sorts of nonsense ... — Sergei Lukyanenko

The heart, so small, yet, able to grow so large, sometimes always wants to take or give more than can be managed successfully. Thanks to the rational head, though, it's always there to save her from taking more than she can contain
. . . .
or so it thinks. — Ufuoma Apoki

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever. — Nicole Holofcener