Uncurbed Quotes & Sayings

Remember this when you are queen," she breathed. "I told you my secrets. — Catherynne M Valente

The only difference between war and murder is the number of dead. — Joe Abercrombie

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess? — Thomas Hardy

Some people write letters, in the library. — Margaret Atwood

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home. — Jim Messina

There's a difference between suspecting a thing and finally knowing it for certain. — Glenn Beck

To: Christian Grey
You've made me cry again.
I love the iPad.
I love the songs.
I love the British Library App.
I love you.
Goodnight.
Ana xx — E.L. James

Know ahead of time that with some audiences you can say anything and they'll 81 think it's the funniest thing ever, and other times you're wondering whether you're speaking to a group of corpses at a coffin convention. Don't worry: You're getting through. The culture of every group will simply be different. — Terry Fossum

For every Christian, the proclamation and witnessing of the Gospel are never an isolated act. This is important. For every Christian the proclamation and witnessing of the Gospel are never an isolated or group act, and no evangelizers acts, as Paul VI reminded very well, "on the strength of a personal inspiration, but in union with the mission of the Church and in her name" — Pope Francis

Afflictions clarify the soul;
And like hard masters, give more hard directions,
Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. — Francis Quarles

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. — William Blake

We all have ideas, sometimes good ones, not to mention the gift of emotional turmoil that every childhood provides. — Ann Patchett

Everyone is someone's captive. The trick is knowing whose. — Peter A. Smalley

For what good does it do us to guide a horse and control his speed with the curb, and then find that our own passions, utterly uncurbed, bolt with us? Or to beat many opponents in wrestling or boxing, and then to find that we ourselves are beaten by anger? — Seneca.

Here, when I say I never want to be without you,
somewhere else I am saying
I never want to be without you again. And when I touch you
in each of the places we meet,
in all of the lives we are, it's with hands that are dying
and resurrected.
When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life,
in each place and forever — Bob Hicok

Sometimes I'd chance across an elderly member of the community standing in the middle of the street, unable to cross the single white line. Puzzled looks on their faces from asking themselves why they felt so strong about the Dickens side of the line as opposed to the other side. When there was just as much uncurbed dog shit over there as here. When the grass, what little of it there was, sure in the fuck wasn't any greener. When the niggers were just as trifling, but for some reason they felt like they belonged on this side. And why was that? When it was just a line. — Paul Beatty