“Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 133 of 313
“There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.”
“A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.”
“But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.”
“I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.”
“According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm.”
“Being a woman is hard work.”
“Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.”
“The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.”
“It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.”
“What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?”
“Sad company is bad company.”
“In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.”
“The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.”
“You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.”
“Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.”
“Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.”
“HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.”
“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?”
“Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.”