Voluptuaries Quotes

#1. Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss ...

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#2. The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. William gave the gallerist a grim look. In my experience, he said, crooks are usually the least dishonest of the bunch. It's not in their interest to deceive you, sir. This is how they make their living. Be patient.

Steven Price

#4. Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

Sabrina Jeffries

#5. I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

Joni Mitchell

#6. The heroism of the average mother. Ah! When I think of that broad fact, I gather hope again for poor humanity; and this dark world looks bright ... because, whatever else it is not full of, it is at least full of mothers.

Charles Kingsley

#7. If when she is aged you cannot see in the eyes of a woman the youth she was at eighteen, then it is not she that is old but you that are blind.

Mark Helprin

#8. Never suffer because you don't have an opinion on this or that topic. Never suffer because you are not something or because you are.

Clarice Lispector

#9. Then on the day when Artemis cries,
then the ashes come falling down.

J.U. Scribe

#10. I so despise people who keep dogs, they are cowards that havent got the curridge to bite themselfs

August Strindberg

#11. And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

Donna Leon

#12. To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Charlemagne

#13. But God loves men more than angels in intensity, because He became one of us,

Peter Kreeft

#14. First off, I don't do self-deprecation comedy based on being fat. I would always talk about it honestly. Secondly, I don't care how much I weigh.

Jeff Garlin

#15. A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.

Roger Ebert