Svana Designs Quotes & Sayings

Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft. — Marianne Williamson

I [glanced] at his soldiers with a curling lip. I had learned this gesture from watching Stefano. Apparently it was just as annoying on my face ... — Barbara Michaels

Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions. — Amit Ray

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish. — Jerome K. Jerome

The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive. — Joan Didion

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. — Jorge Luis Borges

Watch out for the icy patch — Jim Henson

Side note: Down here, you're either an Amundsen guy, a Shackleton guy, or a Scott guy. Amundsen was the first to reach the Pole, but he did it by feeding dogs to dogs, which makes Amundsen the Michael Vick of polar explorers: you can like him, but keep it to yourself, or you'll end up getting into arguments with a bunch of fanatics. Shackleton is the Charles Barkley of the bunch: he's a legend, all-star personality, but there's the asterisk that he never reached the Pole, i.e. won a championship. How this turned into a sports analogy, I don't know. Finally, there's Captain Scott, canonized for his failure, and to this day never fully embraced because he was terrible with people. He has my vote, you understand. — Maria Semple

I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed. — Anne Rice

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? — Albert Einstein

I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper. — Lykke Li

A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write. — Charles Nodier

Relationships fail when people take their own insecurities and project them as their partner's flaws. — Steve Maraboli