Lustreless Facts Quotes & Sayings

Havana was a woman who had once been renowned for her beauty until hard times had soured her. Her hand had gotten heavy with makeup application: her necklines had crept down; her beauty was tainted with vulgarity. But sometimes when she was alone, after she'd taken off her makeup, she danced in her garden, bare-faced and barefoot, to an old bolero, and the old elegance appeared, normal as a Tuesday evening. — Julia Cooke

Behavioral genetics confirms that aggressive tendencies can be inherited, and that gives natural selection material to work with in shifting the average violent tendencies of a population. — Steven Pinker

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful. — Leroy Hood

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others. — George Robinson

She was not a lynx or a spider or even the Wraith. She was Inej Ghafa, and her future was waiting above. — Leigh Bardugo

You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray.
(how to calm a crying baby) — Joyce Maynard

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx. — Cy Coleman

We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on. — Barbara Mandrell

My visits to Hungary over the past twelve years absolutely fixed my conviction that God's Holy Spirit was releasing a spiritual force in that part of the world that was bound to challenge the atheistic philosophy that had dominated nations in that region for decades. — Billy Graham

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me. — Michael Robotham

I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame. — Michael Light

The time between your first major fight with your best friend until you make up is, for a teenage girl, about as long as it took for God to create the universe ... It's excellent training for having a boyfriend. — Brando Skyhorse

Existence is free because it is not perfect. — Vatsal Surti