Venefica Corsetry Quotes & Sayings

Really? What did you cost me again? I ask.
A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says. — Suzanne Collins

The history of a daughter is a drama in three acts. One: from age three to nineteen you will kill any man who touches her. Two: from age twenty to twenty-five you hope that one at least of the young men nosing around will prove satisfactory. Three: from age twenty-six on you pray that any man at all, even a train robber, will take her off your hands. Marjorie is twenty-three and my husband no longer dreams of a perfect husband. Just an acceptable one. — James A. Michener

Pay attention to what you're saying. Are you blessing your life? Or are you cursing it? — Joel Osteen

I have the necessary lack of tact. — Ted Koppel

Beauty hovers around you wherever you go, which is why these two poor young men chase after you when you're covered in dirt and dressed in rages. Not beauty of the face or form. Something eternal. — Julie Berry

Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout. — Ashanti

In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles. — James Hollis

Word like that, others' opinions of you, shouldn't have that kind of power, Saint. But they did and therein lay the problem. I was always guilty of letting other people's words and actions hurt me and dictate how I felt about myself, and it was costing me more than I ever thought. — Jay Crownover

Go out of your comfort zone; endure the pain. You will gain. — Debasish Mridha

The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words. — Samuel R. Delany

I remember someone said to me, "Never stand up when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down, never lie down when you can be asleep." Those are bits of advice that I haven't taken, really. I've done the opposite of them, but they have stayed with me. — Michael Sheen

In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present. — Judith Lynne Hanna

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected. — Irrfan Khan

Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God. — J.C. Ryle

Don't ask me why I know the future. Ask me why you should know it. — Robin Sacredfire