Maria Sunday Quotes & Sayings

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded. — Maria Jane McIntosh

You are many years late; how happy I am to see you — Anna Akhmatova

Lila sat in the passenger seat and I sat in the driver's side of Aires' 1965 Corvette. She'd come home with me to act as my barrier for Family Friday - or as I liked to refer to it, Dinner for the Damned. — Katie McGarry

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly! — Jean De La Bruyere

I want to trust but it scares the skin off my bones. — Tahereh Mafi

You only get honest expression when I spit in your ear;
That means even when I'm dissing you I'm being sincere. — One Be Lo

It is essential to consider as a constant point of reference in this essay the regular hiatus between what we fancy we know and what we really know, practical assent and simulated ignorance which allows us to live with ideas which, if we truly put them to the test, ought to upset our whole life. — Albert Camus

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. — Karl Kraus

The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively. — Avinash Kaushik

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. — Charles Caleb Colton

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it. — Elizabeth Bear

We have two choices when things pile up at work or we're surrounded by energy vampires who leave us feeling depleted. We can get frantic, hyperventilate, shut down, and become reactive. Needless to say, these responses to stress just make us more stressed. Surrendered people have the ability to pause, take a deep breath, and observe. — Judith Orloff

Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them. — Tom Ford

Water is life, and clean water means health. — Audrey Hepburn

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about. — Henri Nouwen

A person's character is most clearly seen not by what they show, but what they hide. — Michelle Griep