Valide Quotes

#1. The snake is captivated for now.
- Hafsa, The Valide Sultana.

P.J. Parker

#2. too much love like too much rain begets large and bloody pools of discontent. I see my winter marked in your eyes. Whoever told you I was perfection?'-exerpt from Valide

Barbara Chase-Riboud

#3. There are a lot of people who had past lives where they were monks and nuns and all their needs were provided for them. I feel like most people in the new age had this as their most recent lifetime experience, that kind of communal living.

Doreen Virtue

#4. Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. I pity those who make much ado about the transitory nature of all things and are lost in the contemplation of earthly vanity: are we not here to make the transitory permanent? This we can do only if we know how to value both.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#6. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. As a Dominican man, you're socialized to be a playboy. You spend a lot of time being taught that women are important, but without the really positive framework of why. You figure out quickly it's because of culo (ass). But there is a sense that it's not that simple.

Junot Diaz

#8. If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons, who are cosseted in a world where rich people endlessly scratch the backs of rich people.

Maureen Dowd

#9. You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe
or she will call you ungrateful.

Martial

#10. Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.

Evelyn Waugh

#11. I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.

Ray Lewis

#12. Now I will be anything else you please, except dull. You may say I have been dull already? As I am an honest woman, I don't agree with you. There are some people who bring dull minds to their reading - and them blame the writer for it. I say no more.

Wilkie Collins

#13. I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

Jack Kemp

#14. The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

Ram Dass