Aphelions Rest Quotes & Sayings

The human person finds his perfection in seeking and loving what is true and good. — Pope Benedict XVI

There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But it's still there. — Paulo Coelho

Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went. — Andy Rourke

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens ... — Jeremy Taylor

Does doing something old with new technology mean that I'm teaching with technology and that I'm doing so in a way as to really improve the reading and writing skills of the students in my classroom? (2007, 214). Her answer, as well as mine, would be no. When we simply bring a traditional mind-set to literacy practices, and not a mind-set that understands new literacies (an idea developed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel, which I elaborate on later) into the process of digital writing, we cannot make the substantive changes to our teaching that need to happen in order to embrace the ... — Troy Hicks

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him. — Simone De Beauvoir

Masooma." "Could you?" "I could try," Parwana says. "Good. Then marry Saboor. Look after his — Khaled Hosseini

Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary. — Stephen Marche

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface — Philip Roth

In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework. — Nicholas Ray