Sybaritic Quotes

#1. Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.

Barbara Holland

#2. On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

Henry Hampton

#3. Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.

Michael Caine

#4. Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#5. What I do is the truest mirror of who I am.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.

Phoenix Desmond

#7. I took in a deep breath and let it out.
He had my back. He had my front. He had my family.
He had my heart.

Kristen Ashley

#8. We come to understand God as we come to trust Him, and we never trust without releasing the grip we hold on our own will.

Toni Sorenson

#9. Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.

Sean MacBride

#10. If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

Richard Louv

#11. Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.

Maureen Lipman

#12. Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

James M. Barrie

#13. When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

Wayne Muller

#14. I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

Jodie Foster