Tressed Quotes & Sayings

We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite ... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space. — Immanuel Kant

Clothes are like a suit of armour when you're young. I was quite a shy teen, so I wanted to make aggressive statements with the way I looked. I'd say my goth/indie stage was the worst: there was a lot of experimentation involving pink food dye in my fringe. — Erin O'Connor

Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council. But if that were to happen Iran is not afraid. — Hamid-Reza Assefi

He had come abroad to enjoy the Flemish painters and all others; but what fair-tressed saint of Van Eyck or Memling was so interesting a figure as Madame de Mauves? — Henry James

I don't believe in eating junk and I protect my face all the time from the sun, even in the winter with base and makeup. — Joan Collins

I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. — Guy Pearce

If your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body? — June Jordan

If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. — M. Scott Peck

Go be who you were meant to be, explore your mind, understand you are free. — Goodmorning Gorgeous

This is why I am so reticent about our relationship
because on some basic, fundamental level, I recognize within me a deep-seated compulsion to be loved and cherished. — E.L. James

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq ... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain. — Marek Belka

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed. — Rose Wilder Lane

95% of everything you do is the result of habit. — Aristotle.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am. — Elizabeth Bowen