Meme Herp Quotes & Sayings

You see how every thing is denied to free will, for the very purpose of leaving no room for merit. And yet, as the beneficence and liberality of God are manifold and inexhaustible, the grace which he bestows upon us, inasmuch as he makes it our own, he recompenses as if the virtuous acts were our own. — John Calvin

I feel betrayed by own mother. — Aaron Carter

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors. — James Hillman

HOW TO TRIUMPH LIKE A GIRL I like the lady horses best, how they make it all look easy, like running 40 miles per hour is as fun as taking a nap, or grass. I like their lady horse swagger, after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up! But mainly, let's be honest, I like that they're ladies. As if this big dangerous animal is also a part of me, that somewhere inside the delicate skin of my body, there pumps an 8-pound female horse heart, giant with power, heavy with blood. Don't you want to believe it? Don't you want to lift my shirt and see the huge beating genius machine that thinks, no, it knows, it's going to come in first. — Ada Limon

Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing. — James Fenton

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. — Anthony Powell

Viewed from a different angle, my uncle's words offered up the rest of my life as an unexpected gift, an opportunity for the most radical improvisation. I could be whatever I wanted to be, as long as I didn't end up another corpse in the casket with a hole in his head. Anything went. Anything was permissible, as long as I lived. — Philip Connors

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. — R. Buckminster Fuller

When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another. — Marc Maron

Anger is a wound gone mad. — Vanna Bonta

Is there anything
more adult than sticking with a relationship that's falling apart in the hope that you can put it right?
I've never done that in my life. — Nick Hornby

He took a step closer, his breath falling on my face. "You can do whatever the fuck you want. You have a long leash. — L.J. Shen

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. — Albert Einstein

Ky smiles then, a smile I've never seen before. It's the kind of daring, reckless smile that could make people follow him straight into a firing, a flood. — Ally Condie