"my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Home Quotes #Self Quotes #Lazy Quotes

“The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and v__ulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 317, 1895.
“You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.”
“We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.”
“I like to watch a bit of Disney, sprinkle some cocaine on some melon and just sit and eat it. I'm joking, I'm joking. There's no Disney.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I know it sounds old-fashioned to say we're too materialistic in the West, but happiness does not derive exclusively from things, and yet we seem to be structuring our whole society around things. I think that's partially why Westerners are joining ISIS and going to Syria. We have lost our way in the West in holding up a vision for humanity that is not exclusively shaped by materialism.”
“I don't mind wearing a corset; it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.”

Source : "Spiritual vs. Material Fulfillment: Who Says You Can’t Have Both? (Part II)" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2011.
“There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall acquiesce, with the remark that the later position might be considered a more rarefied muddle. But poets rather specialize in muddles and I have no doubt which of the muddles was better for Auden's poetry: one was fertile and usable, the other decidedly is not. Auden sometimes seems to be saying with Henry Clay, "I had rather be right than poetry"; but I am not sure, then, that he is either.”

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