Spareness Quotes & Sayings

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. — Calvin Coolidge

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are — Muhammad Ali

Would a DNA test for love take a sample from the heart or the mind? — Dean Cavanagh

Simplicity is a most complex form — Duke Ellington

I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore ... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better. — Katherine Center

The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see. — Rudyard Kipling

All I could see was his face, hovering over me, his breath hitching in his throat, the look of hunger in his dark gaze. I clung to the memory of that momentary lapse of his control, savoring it, replaying it in my mind again and again. As fleeting as it had been, it had been enough. If that was as far as things would ever go, it was enough to carry with me as a reminder of my time with him in Greece. — Elle J. Lawson

The less you say, the more your words will matter. — Rae Carson

I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things. — John Le Carre

He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand ... This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone. — Kim Edwards

And speaking of females, if I call you by one's name while my fangs are plunged deep in your neck, just run with it. — Kresley Cole

Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced spareness of texts; the intimacy of phone conversations has turned into the missed signals of mobile phone chat ... ('you're breaking up' is the cry of our time) ... — Rebecca Solnit

Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul — Kay Boyle