Xq Institute Quotes & Sayings

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield

I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit. — Vanessa Marcil

What are you typing with? A potato? — Jay McLean

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality. — Gottfried Leibniz

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference. — Marilyn Manson

The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of the whole class. Maybe my love for photography came from that humiliation: a photo is something that you develop and print yourself, in the dark, and that remains in the dark until you decide to show it. — Hiroshi Hamaya

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that. — Craig Finn

Anyone who doesn't focus on Jesus Christ and His finished work has neither the wisdom of God nor the power of God ... — Joseph Prince

I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to become something else, they find themselves in Shakespeare. — Neil MacGregor

You see, Ross, in every right marriage, in every good marriage a woman has to be three things, don't she? She's got to be a wife and look after a man's comforts in the way a man should be looked after. Then she's got to bear his children and get all swelled up like a summer pumpkin and then often-times feed them after and smell of babies and have them crawling all about her...But then, third, she has also to try and be his mistress at the same time; someone he is still interested in; someone he wants, not just the person who happens to be there and convenient; someone a bit mysterious...someone whose knee or -- or shoulder he wouldn't instantly recognize if he saw it beside him in bed. It's -- it's impossible. — Winston Graham

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this. — Jon Corzine

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console. — Dalai Lama