Thousand Capacities Quotes

#1. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.

Virginia Woolf

#2. I think of my own epitaph, still to be written, and all the places I'll wander. No longer rooted, but gold, flowing. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. -Violet

Jennifer Niven

#3. Chocolate Melting

Peggy Dulle

#4. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.

Jeannette Rankin

#5. Riches exclude only one inconvenience,
that is, poverty.

Samuel Johnson

#6. I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

John Edensor Littlewood

#7. There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#8. Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.

Max Frisch

#9. As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of that.

Robert David Steele

#10. It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

Julia Quinn

#11. I've seen Emily's scars, and that's more than you can say.
Fairfield shrunk back from the anger in Anjan's voice. "I meant well," he whispered.
Anjan leaned forward across the desk until he was an inch from the other man. "Mean better.

Courtney Milan