Vivevae Quotes & Sayings

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible. — Gustave Flaubert

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement? — Karen Horney

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ... — Charlie Munger

Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings. — David Ferrer

Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I begin to understand you." She nods. "The blacksmith makes his own tools. — Hilary Mantel

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. — Wayne Thiebaud

How can the truth make anything worse? — Kiera Cass

Poor black families were "immersed in a domestic web of a large number of kin and friends whom they [could] count on," wrote the anthropologist Carol Stack in All Our Kin. Those entwined in such a web swapped goods and services on a daily basis. This did little to lift families out of poverty, but it was enough to keep them afloat. But large-scale social transformations - the crack epidemic, the rise of the black middle class, and the prison boom among them - had frayed the family safety net in poor communities. So had state policies like Aid to Families with Dependent Children that sought to limit "kin dependence" by giving mothers who lived alone or with unrelated roommates a larger stipend than those who lived with relatives. — Matthew Desmond

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion. — Sri Aurobindo

Our kitchen is warm; it's who we are. And it has everything. Honestly, I could get rid of the rest of the house and just live in the kitchen. — Ralph Lauren