Uncuffing Quotes & Sayings

I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience. — Mary Szybist

I didn't want to tumble into that deep dark - how much I wanted to stay here among the clouds and color and light. — Sarah J. Maas

I can tell you that I believe - that the human heart's mysterious ability to love others is never wrong. Your heart will never ask your permission to love. It's going to love whomever it was made to love, and the best thing you can do is follow it. — Kelly Quindlen

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders. — John Baldessari

Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms. — Rumi

the most significant consequence of Adam's and Eve's sin was the immediate loss of intimacy with Yahweh. To restore what was lost, God had to become our Redeemer and Savior. Although Adam and Eve created a wide separation between God and the human race, man is incapable of bridging the gap. Yahweh had to do that Himself. — Neil Snyder

You don't deserve it but I'm going to let you come so that you'll remember that I love you. — Laurelin Paige

I hear her pacing the house, mumbling, words I can barely make out and am frightened to hear. The words 'Carpe Diem' come from her lips like she's a broken, skipping record, and I clutch the pendant of my necklace tightly, fighting back tears. Because I know she's talking to him, appealing to an invisible man named John, the one who walked out on her when I was born. I know it's not my fault. Not my fault she's this way. Not my fault he left her. But fuck if I don't feel guilty anyway. — J.M. Darhower

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances. — Marilyn Monroe

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it. — Dallas Willard

Baby names are a big debate in my family. Like true Colombian and Puerto Rican families, everybody and their mother is putting their two cents in - everything from Jose to Francisco to Victorio to Rain has been suggested. — Paula Garces

But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive and will himself draw exhaustively from his own existence. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Last year my wife ran off with the fellow next door and I must admit, I still miss him. — Les Dawson

This knotted dilemma lies at the center of women's development. How can girls both enter and stay outside of, be educated in and then try to change, what for millennia has been a man's world? — Carol Gilligan

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea. — Najib Razak