Cipari Uz Quotes

#1. As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

Marcus Aurelius

#2. I've never heard anyone else called "the nicest person in the world." For Gail, it's an entirely deserved title.

J.D. Vance

#3. There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town still alight at midnight.

Alice Hoffman

#4. Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

Robert Baden-Powell

#5. In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

Charles Simic

#6. I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet horror.

Glen Duncan

#7. Mozart is my first strength.

Danielle De Niese

#8. There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

Anton Corbijn

#9. Maybe my limbs are made
mostly for decoration,
like the way I feel about
persimmons.

Ada Limon

#10. I have no regrets.

Andrea Corr

#11. As he has promised, no harm has come to the Baudelaire orphans in the Reptile Room, but great harm had come to Uncle Monty.

Lemony Snicket

#12. Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

Elbert Hubbard

#13. The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

James Tobin