Overevaluating Quotes & Sayings

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. — Honore De Balzac

Before every performance I feel nervous. — Diego Boneta

Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep. — Oscar Levant

I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the individual ray from the Light which both held and lit it ... And the ray was the Guardian Angel of the mote: not a thing interposed between God and the creature, but God's very attention itself, personalized ... This is a finite parallel to the Infinite. As the love of the Father and Son (who are infinite and equal) is a Person, so the love and attention of the Light to the Mote is a person (that is both with us and in Heaven): finite but divine, i.e. angelic. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines. — Angela Sarafyan

The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is. — Samuel Reshevsky

So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person? — Sister Souljah

Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life ... the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Friendship is strengthened by ... that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion. — William F. Buckley Jr.