Teavana Loose Quotes & Sayings

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery. — Gerry Spence

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life. — Robert M. Pirsig

The great spider never worries itself chasing after its prey with all of its energy and strength. It only exerts its energy each morning to build its web in a magnificent way; relaxes in it and awaits its prey that will miss its path into the web — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses. — Hanya Yanagihara

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. — Bergen Evans

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. — William Hazlitt

I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin. — John Steinbeck

He wasn't wrong to fall for me. Just in the wrong universe. — Claudia Gray

The best thing of all is God is with us. — John Wesley

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud. — Saul Williams

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along. — James J. Kilpatrick

Anger and shame laced with loneliness spread throughout her, heating her to the core. Self-pity wasn't something Bess would normally succumb to, but things in the past few months had fallen apart, and there was no one there to help pick up the pieces. — Inger Iversen