Sevres Marks Quotes & Sayings

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions. — John Ambrose Fleming

But you were a bad girl today, weren't you? Coming over here in your black lace panties telling me to fuck you. — Melanie Harlow

I don't feel like what I've done are 'accomplishments.' — Stefanie Powers

All the windows of my heart I open to the day. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You look like a really well-dressed pirate carting around an ugly treasure chest. — J.D. Robb

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction. — Robert A. Heinlein

Having people like that in your service degrades such service, when they are going around the world like beggars." Such was the advice from her Majesty, Empress of the German Empire, on the subject of hiring Wolfgang Mozart. — Robert Spaethling

No matter what authority Satan and his subjects have temporarily been allowed in this world system, Christ can pull rank anytime He wants to. — Beth Moore

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

All human life on the planet is born of woman. The one unifying, incontrovertible experience shared by all women and men is that months-long period we spent unfolding inside a woman's body. Because young humans remain dependent upon nurture for a much longer period than other mammals, and because of the division of labor long established in human groups, where women not only bear and suckle but are assigned almost total responsibility for children, most of us first know both love and disappointment, power and tenderness, in the person of a woman. — Adrienne Rich

What practically defines the evangelical church today is an emphasis on two issues that Jesus did not even mention. — Philip Yancey

Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them. — Sebastian Faulks

Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine. — William Wordsworth