Marciante And Lefavi Quotes & Sayings

Everyone expected him to succeed, no matter what the arena, and so failure, even temporary failure, had ceased to be an option. — Chad Harbach

This humanity of woman, brought forth in pains and degradations, will come to light when she has shed the conventions of mere femininity in the alterations of her outward station, and the men who today do not feel it coming will be surprised and struck by it. — Rainer Maria Rilke

All that time she had worked in the acquisition of Power. All that time she had been ruled by ambition. All those centuries that she had lived in such a vast yet fleeting journey, and here he was holding everything she had reached for, not striving, not continually learning to be better, not fighting to acquire any of it. He just was, the mysterious, magical rune, the riddle of a creature that nature decreed should not be able to exist, and yet he did. — Thea Harrison

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners. — John Fogerty

The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template. — Chris Ware

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is. — Sabrina Lloyd

I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not ... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly. — Satyajit Ray

Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me. — Tatyana Ali

As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage. — Peggy McIntosh

Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me. — Gregory Of Nyssa

The world is a clock and the clock winds down, and their coming had nothing to do with that. The world has always been a clock. Even the stars will wink out one by one and there will be no light or heat, and this is the war, the endless, futile war against the lightless, heatless void rushing toward us. — Rick Yancey

There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in the breeze ... Even a wild dog's matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely enough. — Brunonia Barry

To the daughters of Eve, that they may teach men that love is not lechery, nor the simony of voluptuousness, but a joy that dwells in the highest and holiest regions of the terrestrial paradise, that they may make it the highest prize of virtue, the most glorious conquest of genius, the first force of human progress. — Lidia Yuknavitch

So: Ask yourself not, Am I full ?
but, Is my hunger gone?
That moment will arrive several bites sooner. — Michael Pollan

Love isn't making others into the people we imagine they should be. It's about letting people be themselves — Katherine Longshore