Origami Flower Quotes & Sayings

As Duke Ellington once said, "There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind." In that sense, jazz and classical music are fundamentally the same. The pure joy one experiences listening to "good" music transcends questions of genre. — Haruki Murakami

Think often the connection of all things in the world and their mutual relations, they are arguably intertwined with each other and thus have for each other a mutual friendship, and that under the connection that leads him and the unity of matter — Marcus Aurelius

Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention. — Kevin Spacey

Because I can see in his eyes that he wants that kiss as much as I do. — Ally Condie

if our style of looking becomes beautiful, then beauty will become visible and shine forth for us. We will be surprised to discover beauty in unexpected places where the ungraceful eye would never linger. The graced eye can glimpse beauty anywhere, for beauty does not reserve itself for special elite moments or instances; it does not wait for perfection but is present already secretly in everything. When we beautify our gaze, the grace of hidden beauty becomes our joy and our sanctuary. — John O'Donohue

How the hell are you supposed to survive, when the part of you that you need to live is walking around outside your body? — Aurora Rose Reynolds

A cat is never vulgar. — Carl Van Vechten

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. — Doris Lessing

The only advantage of knowledge is that it can justify suffering. — Sorin Cerin

Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won. — Helen Thomas

I had begun to understand that although most Americans have no idea that lifestyles are built on exploitation, millions of people in other countries are aware of it. — John Perkins

I have my stars in the sky, but oh for my little lamp unlit in my house. — Rabindranath Tagore