Inartificial Quotes

#1. Under an unsophisticated culture, inartificial tastes, and an unpretending outside, lay a secret power and fire that might have informed the brain and kindled the veins of a hero ...

Charlotte Bronte

#2. Life is for service.

Fred Rogers

#3. Achilleus started awake, staring, and drove his hands together, and spoke, and his words were sorrowful: Oh, wonder! Even in the house of Hades there is left something, a soul and an image, but there is no real heart of life in it.

Homer

#4. You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

Maya Angelou

#5. This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.

Robert Shea

#6. I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone ... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

Jo Brand

#7. It's quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

Terry Pratchett

#8. I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.

Marianne Williamson

#9. This is the moment of the end. This is where we give up hope on reversing time, where we abandon finding a cure to death, where we live in this Theo-less universe, where we say goodbye. But I can't. It is goodbye for most, but not for me. Never me.

Adam Silvera

#10. According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

Ernesto Cardenal

#11. Everything and anything about a culture can be inferred from the shape of its language - and

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.

Randy Alcorn

#13. You can see all kinds of matchups within those teams, but I think it's going to come down to who plays best as a team and is patient.

Mats Sundin

#14. I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

Antonio Tabucchi

#15. Even as grief flickers in me, I feel something like a first kiss happening - a meeting with someone dearly amazing, life-changing, lucky....

Laurie Perez

#16. Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
[Valor that parleys is near yielding.]

George Herbert