Perspicuous Means Quotes & Sayings

By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
light chariot, and establish love.
[Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.] — Ovid

I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me ... — Laurie Halse Anderson

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life. — Maria Montessori

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated. — Joyce Carol Oates

As difficult as it was to decipher Two's expression when she was on the ground, it was next to impossible when she was at her ease hanging upside down in her office. — Susan R. Matthews

Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in. — Melinda Gebbie

the southern countries in which d'Artagnan had hitherto — Alexandre Dumas

Blood is mentioned 460 times in the Bible. Fourteen times in the New Testament Jesus spoke of His own blood. Why? Because by the shedding of His blood, He accomplished the possibility of our salvation. — Billy Graham

As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now. — Marie Forleo

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying. — Andre Gide

We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course of things and custom and history, and that this will happen to us, that we will experience it, that we - that is, I alone - will be the ones to see it. We always aspire, I suppose, to being the chosen ones, and it is unlikely otherwise that we would be prepared to live out the entire course of an entire life, which, however short or long, gradually gets the better of us. — Javier Marias

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual. — George Michael

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. — J.B. Priestley

The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity ... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine. — Charles Bradlaugh

Life is worth living to reveal the beauties of life. — Debasish Mridha