Solvetan Quotes & Sayings

Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean — Gregory Palamas

It's all in the details - what you put in, what you don't. I mean, you leave out the weather and what people are wearing, you can skip half the story. — Neil Gaiman

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history. — Joel Garreau

Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do. — Wanda Sykes

Life really comes down to two problems. You are either drinking too much or you are not drinking enough. — David Alejandro Fearnhead

The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The question is, did you get your life-changing experience?"
Amy looked at Matt and smiled. "I did."
Matt's entire heart turned over in his chest. "Damn," he said, pulling her in. "Damn, I love you."
"Watch the arm!" Josh warned.
"He's not watching that arm," Ty said as Matt kissed Amy again. — Jill Shalvis

Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who, before anything has reared its ugly head, have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies. The habit fitted snugly into my well-established world of make-believe. — Quentin Crisp

Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things. — William H Gass

Don't let hope make you stupid. — Stephenie Meyer

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it. — Adolf Hitler

From the beginning, I got all Emirates cabin crew applicants psychometrically tested. Those who didn't want to be nice to others got rejected. — Maurice Flanagan

Love has no age. — Gail Porter

It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer