Xanthippe Quotes

#1. Sokrates' wife, Xanthippe, had in antiquity a reputation as a shrew - but being married to such a man would have tried anyone's patience, and the evidence is not conclusive.

Hilary J. Deighton

#2. Molecule Trustees: The sun and all of us are molecule trustees, administering the molecules entrusted to us until they are passed on. Like any trustee, we do not own the property, nor do we decide who will receive what we stewarded. It might be somebody grumpy like Xanthippe.

Amy Leach

#3. They were untouchable, fascinating, and nothing they ever did was wrong. I wanted that. I wanted to look down at the sky.

Penelope Douglas

#4. And Henry's as well, for

Nicholas Sparks

#5. Everything has its opposite within it.
Love can be very destructive if you mishandle it.
Pain can help you find ways to grow and change.
Fear can eventually lead you to a path of hope.

Jay Woodman

#6. That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

Gena Showalter

#7. Indeed, depression changes the world itself and not just in the way the person views it.

David B. Biebel

#8. Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.

John Fletcher

#9. Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

Brian Jacques

#10. If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.

Chael Sonnen

#11. The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.

Maimonides

#12. What happened in the virtual world, where beauty existed for the purpose of being hated and besmirched, was more compelling than what happened in the real world, where beauty seemed to have no purpose at all.

Jonathan Franzen

#13. I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.

Sylvia Plath

#14. The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused ... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.

Evan Harris

#15. Customers to whom he'd sold three dollars and six cents' worth of gas the night of the Holcomb tragedy.

Truman Capote

#16. What I teach the people many times is that attitude and attention will determine the whole course of our lives. Get rid of fear and that is all you ever have to get rid of. Fear of anything at all.

Norval Morrisseau

#17. Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.

Sylvia Boorstein