quotes on quality

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~W. Ralph Ward



Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. ~Maurice Baring



The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. ~Woodrow Wilson



Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly. ~Author Unknown



Bisexuality is a blessing and a curse, but viewing it as a schizophrenia will make you insane.... I am not a whole person with split desires: I am a whole person with desire. As everyone is, regardless. ~Agave Powers



Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter



I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. ~Horace



If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler



Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach. ~A. Kerr



Mine is the night, with all her stars. ~Edward Young



You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. ~Sri Sathya Sai Baba



Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~Leo Tolstoy



With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ~Abraham Lincoln



There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. ~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945



Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9



Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth



The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay