Anadvancing Quotes & Sayings

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin

Grace is the very opposite of merit ... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite. — Henry Allen Ironside

Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives. — Etty Hillesum

If you put your best foot forward and if you overcome your fears, you will surely be able to attain the heights of success — Anamika Mishra

People no longer need to go to church to hear the Word, which has been the selling point for local churches for the past fifty years. Because of this, church is becoming less of a possessor of knowledge (commodity) and more a communal hub. — Justin Wise

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices. — Tim Daly

And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect. — John Donne

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years. — Laura Hillenbrand

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used. — Charles Francis Richter

I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward ... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong. — Veerappa Moily

You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull." Sherlock — Arthur Conan Doyle

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions ... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. — Muhammad Iqbal

I don't think men were meant to be interviewed. — Leos Carax

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work. — Joseph De Maistre

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work. — Gregory Benford