Quebreiras Quotes & Sayings

In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, 'There, there.' The literary symbols are more dangerous [than sculptures and pictures] because they are not so easily recognized as symbolical. Those of Dante are best. Before his angels we sink in awe. — Kathryn Lindskoog

I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction. — Lusia Strus

Amory: I love you.
Rosalind: I love you- now. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The test of civilization is its estimate of women. — George William Curtis

Torture is the act of making someone die a slow death, making the prisoner die several times. — Elie Wiesel

If there is one thing in which I hold complete confidence, it is the conviction of my own desirability. — Anne Elisabeth Stengl

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. — George Oppen

You must exercise your own reason and judgment; you must practice, and see whether these things happen or not. Just as you would take up any other science, exactly in the same manner you should take up this science for study. There is neither mystery nor danger in it. So far as it is true, it ought to be preached in the public streets, in broad daylight. Any attempt to mystify these things is productive of great danger. — Swami Vivekananda