Over Arched Spine Quotes

#1. Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. The secret parts of this city never ceased to amaze me.

Nicholas Kaufmann

#3. Why was it, she asked herself, that 'animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast.

Diane Ackerman

#4. In reading he found solitude. In reading he could dispel the blare of the world.

Christos Tsiolkas

#5. I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

Morgan Freeman

#6. Through daily yoga practice we can become present to our own fundamental goodness and the goodness of others

Donna Farhi

#7. In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the Lord is (Psalm 34).

Jacques Philippe

#8. head dropped back and her spine arched, and for a time she forgot every single thing that might have existed except the sensation of his hands and his tongue.

G.S. Jennsen

#9. Pretty, pink Barbie fucks hard and raw like an animal. Her head is thrown back, spine arched, she's oblivious to rules, to moral order, to all but inner imperatives. And I wonder: could she live like she fucks?

Karen Marie Moning

#10. I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.

Kate Klise

#11. Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.

Donna Tartt

#12. If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? ... Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

Ayn Rand

#13. I was driven when I was younger. Driven at West Point where it was much more competitive in that women were competing with men on many levels, and I was driven in the military and at Harvard, both competitive environments.

Paula Broadwell

#14. His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched spine. All that effort to open the gates of heaven for us and we (he thought) probably spend out first hours among the heavenly hosts settling old scores with relatives.

Alice McDermott

#15. Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

Laurette Taylor