Oversophistication Quotes & Sayings

In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation. — Bernie Glassman

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life. — Richard Wiseman

It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A deity who remains silent and invisible should not get angry or surprised at doubt of his reality. — Graham Kendall

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. — Malcolm X

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards. — Suzy Bogguss

There is no need, however, to be angry at this ambition of theirs
which may be forgiven; for every man ought to be loved who says and manfully pursues and works out anything which is at all like wisdom: at the same time we shall do well to see them as they really are. — Plato

You can make a good living while serving a greater good. — Ivan Misner

The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace. — Wendell Phillips

But I also think most people today lose the savor of love and sex through oversophistication and impatience. — George Rockwell

A single tree can make a hundred thousand matches, and a single match can burn a hundred thousand trees. — Kate Bingham

May I kiss you?"

Finally. "Yes."

He smiled as he threaded his fingers through my hair. Carefully, he leaned forward and kissed my forehead.
His mouth was warm and gentle against my skin, but it wasn't enough. "Please tell me that wasn't what you meant."

He laughed softly. "There's more." He kissed my cheek, my jaw, and hovered a fraction above my mouth.

I ached for his kiss, and when the waiting stretched too long, I closed the distance.

He took over, which was just as well, because I forgot where I was or the time or my name. The only thing in the world was his mouth. That kiss. Us. — Elizabeth Langston

All they needed to do was look up close at what it was they were afraid of and they'd probably realise that it wasn't so frightening after all. — Melina Marchetta

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet. — Eric Andre

The way he loved was almost like a vise, a weight; at times she felt it verged on codependence--that his identity, his value system, all of it very much hinged on her. — Nickolas Butler

The fate of Susan Pevensie indicates some sort of crazed, deranged Manichaeism. Here's a simple test: What is the greatest Christian virtue? Well, it's charity, isn't it? It's love. If somebody who knew nothing about Christian doctrine, and who had been told that Lewis was a great Christian teacher, read all the way through those books, would he get that message? No. — Philip Pullman