Observancy Quotes & Sayings

The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father. — Victor Hugo

Painters used red like spice — Derek Jarman

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability. — William A. Henry III

The best part about living with Mamaw was that I began to understand what made her tick. Until then, I had resented how rarely we traveled to Kentucky after Mamaw Blanton's death. The — J.D. Vance

I have two secret weapons
my legs, my arms and my brain. — Michael Vick

They say everyone needs something to love. — Kate Morton

Let us not demean or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging. — Thomas S. Monson

Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. — Thomas Dreier

Many of those who refer to Orwell seem not to have read much more than Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty-Four, if those. The millions who have heard of Big Brother and Room 101 know nothing of their progenitor. — Peter Davidson

Nay, we must think men are not gods,
Nor of them look for such observancy
As fits the bridal. — William Shakespeare

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism ... the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical. — Ezra Pound

So I stand up and face the officer, daring her to look away from my smooth brown skin, the dark rings of my nipples, the swell of my belly, the thatch of hair between my legs. She hands me the orange scrubs that are designed to conform me, and the ID tag with my inmate number, meant to define me as part of a group, instead of an individual. I stare at her until she meets my eye. "My name," I say, "is Ruth." - — Jodi Picoult

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition. — Voltaire