Valentus Specialty Quotes

#1. Maybe what you found is being used for another reason?" Z stopped. "Oh, yeah. Right. Because those things are multifunctional. Like Q-tips or some shit. Look, would you talk to her?

J.R. Ward

#2. I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

Donald Rumsfeld

#3. Reading across disciplinary categories in this way provides one of the main organizing logics of this book because instinct's presence, absence, and characterization within different disciplines is in itself instructive about the changes to sexuality taking place around the turn of the century.

Kathleen Frederickson

#4. A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

Francis Thompson

#5. At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [ ... ] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

Jean Vanier

#6. They weren't just people. And they weren't strangers. They were my neighbors. And I didn't know how to help them.

Hannah Brencher

#7. In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

Rowan Williams

#8. We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

Lyman Beecher

#9. The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.

David Antin

#10. A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.

John James Cowperthwaite

#11. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

Erin Morgenstern