Srgvn Quotes & Sayings

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents. — Nadia Bjorlin

His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul. — Delia Sherman

Precipice is the end of the horizontal road, but the road continues vertically! For the talented, roads always continue; for the capable, there is no moment where the road ends! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole. — Eugene Delacroix

Sadness, discomfort, frustration
they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them? — Magda Gerber

The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism. — Tariq Ali

Just because something is a standard doesn't mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example. — Douglas Crockford

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Some people live to be seventy, sometimes eighty years old believing there is always something new just around the corner, as they say; in the end they practically have to be killed or at least reduced to a state of serious incapacity to get them to see reason. — Michel Houellebecq

Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and most Shia are poor. Otherwise the place is full of sort of self-declared leaders, many of whom spend most of their time outside Iraq. — Patrick Cockburn

Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method. — James Richardson

When generalizations turn into painful cultural stereotypes and biases, those biased narratives disrupt our ability to see each event as individual, which interrupts our ability to intelligently and compassionately respond to what's happening now. In many cases, our generalizations cause real harm, like somebody shooting a person who looks "suspicious" because he fits a racial profile. Generalization is what leads to oppression. Deconstructing our generalizations is the only way to overcome bias. This is where studying emptiness is intended to lead us - toward the cessation of prejudice. — Ethan Nichtern