Respites Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter. — Bill Walsh

All weddings ... It never changes, when the groom lifts the veil, when the bride accepts the ring, the possibilities you see in their eyes, it's the same around the world. They truly believe their love and their marriage is going to break all records. — Mitch Albom

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. — Marcus Aurelius

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think? — Gabrielle Zevin

When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California. — Alex Prager

Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them. — Charles Koch

Why is that I never get cut off from pity, sympathy, participation, in spite of the fact that I am living out of my own dream, my interior vision, my fantasies without any interruptions. I dream, I kiss, I have orgasms, I get exalted, I leave the world, I float, I cook, I sew, have nightmares, write in my head, compose, decompose, improvise, invent, I listen to all, I hear all that is said, I feel Spain, I am aware, I am everywhere , I am open to wounds, open to love, I am rooted to my devotions, I am never separete, I am never cut off, never blind, deaf, absent. I hold on to the dream which makes life possible, to the creation which transfigures, to the God who sustains, to the crimes which gave life, to the illusions which makes the marvelous possible. I hold on to the poetry and the human simplicities. — Anais Nin

A man is only as old as the woman he feels. — Groucho Marx

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away. — Diane Arbus

If we choose not to get involved or pretend it's not happening, we're going against the very sense of connection that makes us human. — Brene Brown

Was it always this way? Did everyone from high school end up looking like weird facsimiles of other people's parents? — Mira Jacob

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed. — Joshua Reynolds

There are marvelous utilities, infinite good and unspeakable beauties in the great cosmic intelligence, the unseen world, ready for our use and enjoyment. If we only had sufficient faith to believe they were there we could draw them to ourselves. — Orison Swett Marden

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else. — Nikki Reed