Sonnett Quotes & Sayings

See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement — Tony Robbins

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching? — Samuel Hoffenstein

And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare
Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14 — William Shakespeare

O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight!
... Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's 'No.'
How can it? O, how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vex'd with watching and with tears?
No marvel then, though I mistake my view;
The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.
O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind,
Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.
- Shakespeare's Sonnet 148 — William Shakespeare

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time. — Louise Erdrich

Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others. — Noah Levine

The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house. — Hank Williams Jr.

Girlfriends aren't allowed to care if you have Stilton socks. Friends are." All the same, she gave her hands a quick, professional shake and took hold of my foot. "Plus, you might be less of a pain in the arse if you got more action. — Tana French

Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement. — Stephen Jay Gould

Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love? — Kate DiCamillo