quotes about Christmas Time

“Good politics are often inextricably intertwined.”

“If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.”

“Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.”

“In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago”

“No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”

“Every day, the people I meet inspire me... every day, they make me proud... every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.”

“I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.”

“Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.”

Source : John Yau (1989). “Radiant Silhouette: New & Selected Work, 1974-1988”, p.81, David R. Godine Publisher