Loqueesha Quotes & Sayings

I never want to regret the kisses I missed. — Lynsey Addario

I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light. — Sarah Waters

Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus. — Shonda Rhimes

The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature, but it lacks something that it can only receive from outside and above itself. But when the light shines in it, it becomes in a manner transformed into light and seems to lose its nature in the splendor of a higher nature, the nature of the light that is in it. — Thomas Merton

Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but also a message from higher worlds, raising and urging us on by it's reminders of our own eternal origins. — Bruno Walter

Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay. — Mary Butts

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back — Edward Snowden

Jennifer Sylvester wasn't fierce. She was nuttier than a pecan pie. "Right. — Penny Reid

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background. — Adam Jones

Dale can't tolerate other people throwing up. He gets what's known as the Synchronized Heaves. — Sheila Turnage

This is absurd. It's just a dog.
Just a dog? *Just*?
[to Porthos]
J.M. Barrie: Porthos, don't listen!
[to Peter]
J.M. Barrie: Porthos dreams of being a bear, and you want to shatter those dreams by saying he's *just* a dog? What a horrible candle-snuffing word. That's like saying, "He can't climb that mountain, he's just a man", or "That's not a diamond, it's just a rock." Just. — J.M. Barrie

We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief. — Michael Helm

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: DEU32:03 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. — Anonymous

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. — Jean De La Bruyere

I can't help feeling that people ask too much [of life]. They don't keep up with the Joneses any more
they outstrip them. What people call happiness, today, isn't happiness. It's enjoyment. It's pleasure. And between happiness and pleasure there's a very large gap. — Elizabeth Cadell