Novelly Chic Quotes & Sayings

Keeping the commandments ... is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom. — Stephen L. Richards

Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle. — Richard Grasso

Whereas a religion of many gods posits many myths to describe the human condition, a religion of one god tends to be monomythic; it not only rejects all other gods, it rejects all other explanations for God. — Reza Aslan

The civilization of ancient Greece was nurtured within city walls. In fact, all the modern civilizations have their cradles of brick and mortar.
These walls leave their mark deep in the minds of men. They set up a principle of "divide and rule" in our mental outlook, which begets in us a habit of securing all our conquests by fortifying them and separating them from one another. We divide nation and nation, knowledge and knowledge, man and nature. It breeds in us a strong suspicion of whatever is beyond the barriers we have built, and everything has to fight hard for its entrance into our recognition. — Rabindranath Tagore

Good religious poetry ... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout. — A.E. Housman

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. — Henry David Thoreau

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with. — Dion Fortune

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly. — Alec Baldwin

Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all. — Danielle LaPorte

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes - and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations. — Tom Clancy

Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength. — Alice Sebold

Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it. — Kacey Musgraves