Quotes About Gracious Woman

#1. Of course he had a female following. Was there anything college girls found sexier than being told what to think?

Mira Jacob

#2. In a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

Toni Cade Bambara

#3. Mysticism - Magic and Yoga - is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take.

Israel Regardie

#4. Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

John Barth

#5. I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.

Ron Ziegler

#6. I think I know who that one's from," said Ron, turning a bit pink and pointing to a very lumpy parcel. "My mum. I told her you didn't expect any presents and - oh, no," he groaned, "she's made you a Weasley sweater.

J.K. Rowling

#7. One should marry only when one is wise enough. Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around. Marriage is for those who have experienced life in many ways, who have seen all the colors, the whole spectrum of it, and are now ready to settle.

Rajneesh

#8. It's better to dream a lot, actually. It's good for the brain. Interesting people have interesting dreams. Dull people only have dull ones.

Anonymous

#9. My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me.

Jane Austen

#10. I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.

Jenna Lyons

#11. A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

Honore De Balzac

#12. My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Robert Fripp

#13. When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.

Stormie O'martian

#14. We are saved not because we are worthy. We are saved because we are loved.

Joy Williams

#15. To be anxious wasn't shameful, it was a high calling. It was to be alive to life's contradictions, more receptive to the true nature of things than everyone else. It was to be a person who saw with sharper eyes with more a active skin.

Daniel Smith

#16. Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

John Calvin

#17. the way you could hear outside in the open air - when the conditions were exactly right - the corn growing in the fields of my youth.

Elizabeth Strout

#18. I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

Bill Gates

#19. Our minds are intricate. Our desires are complex. We are gorgeously contradictory in our epistemologies. We were not invented yesterday. Kathleen

Kathleen Collins

#20. She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.

Djuna Barnes

#21. You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world's intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there's cataclysm.

Thomas Pynchon