Foundress Quotes

#1. True anarchy is the generative element of religion. Out of the annihilation of all existing institutions she raises her glorious head, as the new foundress of the world.

Novalis

#2. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.

George Eliot

#3. I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

James Anderson

#4. You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

John Guare

#5. Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of climate change.

Francois Hollande

#6. Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph, until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.

Roddy Doyle

#7. I am not a noble, I do not have the blood of knights in me." Elissa squeezed his hands. "I am not asking for your blood, but your heart.

Brad Clark

#8. I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

Tom Waits

#9. No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

Elif Shafak

#10. If there's anything I've learned it's that love is an unstoppable human drive, fierce and universal, and that sex is the physical manifestation of love. And that sex without love is missing the whole damn point. Sex brings us home to love.

Sarah Katherine Lewis

#11. I trained with an ex-Navy Seal. We shot a lot of guns. Real bullets ... I underwent commando training.

Michelle Rodriguez