Underpins Define Quotes & Sayings

What is pride but an appetite for inordinate exaltation? Now, exaltation is inordinate when the soul cuts itself off from the very Source to which it should keep close and somehow makes itself and becomes an end to itself. — Augustine Of Hippo

It didn't escape me that he couldn't seem to stop finding reasons to touch me.
Nor did I miss that I didn't want him to stop. — Becca Fitzpatrick

For those who wait with full hearts and empty arms. — Tara Sue Me

To make the society" [which of course consists of non-workers] "happy and people easier under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great numbers of them should be ignorant as well as poor; knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our desires, and the fewer things a man wishes for, the more easily his necessities may be supplied." [3] What Mandeville, — Karl Marx

I am a man of lost faiths. — Glen Duncan

Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this? — Manfred Gerstenfeld

But I had no patience with this convent chatter. I had felt the brush take life in my hand that afternoon; I had had my finger in the great, succulent pie of creation. I was a man of the Renaissance that evening- of Browning's renaissance. I, who had walked the streets of Rome in Genoa velvet and had seen the stars through Galileo's tube, spurned the friars, with their dusty tomes, and their sunken, jealous eyes and their crabbed hair-splitting speech. — Evelyn Waugh