Quotes About Profundis

#1. A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.

Elisabeth Elliot

#2. I knew an Ethersworn monk once, who made it a practice to believe six impossible things before breakfast; if he could manage only five, he stayed in bed.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#3. Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#4. Once you set out for something, there may be obstacles. Avoid that which you feel safe to avoid, and approach that which you feel safe to approach. That's how we go through the obstacles.

Art Hochberg

#5. I feel most bossy in jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket and some heels. I just feel bossy that way. I also feel confident in a sick dress at a premiere. Like most women, as long as I'm comfortable in it, I feel confident.

Tika Sumpter

#6. Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

Mark Twain

#7. Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)

Keith Ablow

#8. In my experience, the really great writers enjoy the editorial process.

Mary Norris

#9. I would sooner say, or hear it said of me, that I was so typical a child of my age, that in my perversity, and for that perversity's sake, I turned the good things of my life to evil, and the evil things of my life to good.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Life is an exam where the syllabus is unknown and question papers are not set. Nor are there model answer papers.

Sudha Murty

#11. Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

Oscar Wilde