Wydell Evans Quotes & Sayings

There are many words in the English language that you never want to hear you father say. Enema. Orgasm. Disappointed. — Lauren Oliver

I live quite an unsettled life. — Joely Richardson

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue. — Amit Abraham

Yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things
and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say
shame would not hold down your eyes
but rather you would speak about what is just — Sappho

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane — Honore De Balzac

The individualism of the Romantic theory of interpretation attempts to abstract the individual from his historical context by presenting him with the ideal of presuppositionless understanding; a truer theory of interpretation, which does not seek to elide the historical reality of the one seeking understanding, sets the interpreter himself within tradition. What we understand when we seek to understand the writings of the past is borne to us by tradition. Understanding is an engagement with tradition, not an attempt to escape from it. — Andrew Louth

I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent. — George Benson

We wore that grief like one wears one's underclothes. An invisible skin, unseen to prying eyes, but knitted to us all the same. We wore it every day. — Alyson Richman

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate. — Lynsey Addario