Virtueless Quotes & Sayings

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment. — Elif Shafak

To dance sublimely, one has to forget all about dancing. — Marty Rubin

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it. — Jean Cocteau

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes. — Christopher Hitchens

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States. — Natasha Trethewey

For two full days we picked green beans out in the field, under the molten rays of the summer sun, rows and rows of beans. And the more rows I picked alongside Serafino, the madder I grew inside, thinking about those charityless, virtueless, and benevolentless shitheads who have spread about this glorious land a melodyless song, a giftless song that accuses the immigrant of stealing their lunches - when in fact they are picking, packing, and purveying them.* Millions of immigrant workers - men, women, and children - ignorant, poor, yet so ripe with hope and determination and humility, even while bent over at the waist, picking America's crops, servicing America's insatiable appetite, shouldering the heaviest and most dangerous loads, not so much for themselves, but for America, daily, joyously, like Whitman's song: "A song for occupations! / In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find / the developments, — Richard Horan

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everybody's vaguely miserable sometimes ... and most people are vaguely miserable most of the time. The trick is to scrap your way from the most-of-the-time to the some-of-the-time category. — Tim Sandlin

We want to leave a legacy with who we are and what we do. We want to grow a life that matters. We can. When we eat a diet of fruit and serve up that diet to those around us, we can grow a life that matters. — Elisa Morgan

When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous. — Claire Coffee

I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it. — R. Kelly

I think there are some players born to play ball. — Joe DiMaggio

There is always a best way of doing everything. — Ralph Waldo Emerson