Definition of Beauty Quotes

Beauty is the gift of God… – Aristotle Beauty is a solitary kingdom. – Carneades Beauty is the only thing worth living for. – Agatha Christie Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. – Kahlil Gibran Beauty is a glorious gift of nature. – Homer Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. … [Read more…]

Living a double life Quotes

Writers are paranoid because they’re living two lives– their creative life, which they are most protective of, and their life as a human being. They have to protect both lives. I put a premium on the creative life. One risks one’s personal life in order to work, and when one cannot work, or when one … [Read more…]

Quotes on Dualism

The idealist. He is the man who has rooted out duality. He does not discuss: he demonstrates, indoctrinates, refutes, convinces, condemns. He calls others COMRADES but he never talks to them: he talks to HIS IDEA. – Octavio Paz He would say untruths and be ever double Both in his words and meaning. – Shakespeare … [Read more…]

Quotes about Pornography

Pornography Quotes Vice is a monster of so frightful mein As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. – Alexander Pope I spent a year of my life once writing an erotic novel, in common terms a pornographic one. … [Read more…]

Quotes about Envy

Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard. – Hesiod Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune. – William Hazlitt Envy is the most stupid … [Read more…]

Quotes About Bravery & Courage

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. – Tobias G. Smollett Courage is believing in yourself in the worst moments, and that’s something nobody can teach you. I have never heard of a University for Bravery, but I do know that everyone has it in them to be brave. – El Cordobes Bravery is … [Read more…]

Strong Women Quotes

“The usual masculine disillusionment is in discovering that a woman has a brain.”  -Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind “I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking  … [Read more…]

Violence Quotes

Battle not with monsters lest ye become one;for when you look into the Abyss, the Abyss looks into you. — Nietzsche Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, … [Read more…]

History Quotes

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Will Durant (1885-1981) One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always … [Read more…]

Quotes about Hawaii

# Hawaii is a special place. It is truly multicultural… more nearly a nation than any other state… We may be a small state geographically, but we are a giant in terms of human relations, human understanding, and the achievement of human dignity. … We should start with the core idea of Hawaii as a … [Read more…]