Sunday Wallpaper Quotes

#1. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics.

Dame Edna Everage

#4. Him, trying to do the same.

David James Duncan

#5. Harrogate saw them going along Blount Avenue Sunday morning. They wore outfits all cut from the same bolt of cloth and in the church pew standing six across they looked like a strip of gaudy wallpaper cut into those linked dolls madfolk pass their time in fashioning.

Cormac McCarthy

#6. I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful. I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs.

John Irving

#7. God had infinite time to give us ... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. People who can't afford their mortgages and have to renegotiate with the bank or something gets repossessed after you worked your whole life. You follow the rules and you do the right thing and you still get screwed. That's what I think a lot of Americans are.

Seth Gordon

#9. I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

Jane Seymour

#10. For it is indeed consciousness that makes the body fully alive, and the body that gives consciousness a place to live.

Anodea Judith

#11. Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Seneca The Younger

#12. It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.

Nolan Ryan

#13. -and our lips meet with feels
like not slow motion
but every moment in my life and the lack of time altogether.

Sarah Tregay

#14. True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Philip Massinger