Escutcheons Quotes

#1. Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. You cannot truly enjoy a flower until you can see her inner beauty and feel her purpose of life.

Debasish Mridha

#3. It's for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to.

Scott Kelly

#4. people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself

Rupi Kaur

#5. The big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition.

Barack Obama

#6. No, I got it," he said. His voice was weird.
"Really?" I felt a nervous thrill in my stomach. "What was it?"
Jamie hesitated before he spoke. Then he said, "Marashaw.

Michelle Hodkin

#7. Let us cleave ... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the Scripture says in a certain place (Mk. 7:6), 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts is far from Me.'

Pope Clement I

#8. Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like I deserved a better life than this.

Richard Siken

#9. (M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.

Valerie Martin

#10. The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Isaiah Berlin

#11. Anyways, settin so much store in one person ... it's dangerous.

Moira Young

#12. The universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen for you.

Joe Vitale

#13. He wanted to shout, telling her to stop. He wanted to tell her that he could stay, that he wanted to stay, that if leaving meant losing her, then going home wasn't worth it. But the words stayed trapped inside him ...

Nicholas Sparks

#14. Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

Wong Kar-Wai

#15. You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.

Mother Teresa