Salvifica Quotes & Sayings

Whenever Beauty looks,
Love is also there;
Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek
Love lights Her fire from that flame.
When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night
Love comes and finds a heart
entangled in tresses.
Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond. — Rumi

When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat. — Alain Ducasse

If God wanted us to accept gays, he'd have made us compassionate — Stephen Colbert

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I remember a class I taught at Ohio State where I assigned a Mary Gaitskill story, which really wasn't that bad, and I had this one girl refuse to read it. But better that reaction than no reaction at all. — Donald Ray Pollock