Vidaseats Quotes

#1. God, if I worship Thee in fear of hell, burn me in hell. And if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not Thine everlasting Beauty.

Aldous Huxley

#2. My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.

John Edgar Wideman

#3. Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Henry Fielding

#4. The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Homer

#5. Growing old can mean more than slowing down; it can be a time of truly growing down and incarnating further. Because the inner genius that tries to incarnate through us will keep calling for us to awaken further until we come to the end of our life adventure.

Michael Meade

#6. To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

Joe Biden

#7. I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

Kevin Smith

#8. long-ingrained attitudes don't just evaporate in a generation.

Jessica Bennett

#9. So I get ready to let go and free-fall in the scariest jump of my life. But she's with me. So I swallow my fear and do it.

Liz Reinhardt

#10. To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

William John Locke

#11. I think the one thing of me that they really wanted to capitalize on is my dorkiness

Sutton Foster

#12. I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.

Thomas Jefferson