Armagnac Cognac Quotes & Sayings

Everywhere you look Britain, the States, western Europe people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation. — J.G. Ballard

Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs and other so-called primitive peoples. How savage and barbaric such practices seem. But when a Christian or Jew comes across human sacrifice in the Bible (see Jephthah's immolation of his daughter in Judges 11:30-40), is he or she repulsed? — Steve Allen

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges. — Brittany Snow

Nor is it in fact a purely human knowledge bound by the context and categories of the human mind. Rather, metaphysics, which some of his translators render as metaphysic in order to emphasize its non-multiple but unitary nature, is the science of Ultimate Reality, attainable through the intellect and not reason, of an essentially suprahuman character and including in its fullness the whole of man's being. It is a sacred science or scientia sacra, a wisdom which liberates and which requires not only certain mental capacities but also moral and spiritual qualifications. It — Frithjof Schuon

What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believe my promise'. — John R.W. Stott

You miss them so much when they deploy, and you want them to be home, but then when they are, things aren't perfect. And you feel as if they should be. Depending on the deployment and what I'd been through, I also had emotions ranging from sadness to anxiety to anger. — Chris Kyle

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater. — Harland Williams

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting. — Isocrates

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder. — Cassandra Clare

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians. — Billy Graham

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it ... The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all ... When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. — Mark Twain

Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to follow suit. — Tommy Hilfiger

ART
Art is that thing having to do only with itself - the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are no expamples of art, nor good reasons to think that it will ever exist. (Everything that has been made has been made with a purpose, teverything with an end exists outside of that thing, i.e., "I want to sell this", or "I want this to make me famous and loved", or "I want this to make me whole", or worse, "I want this to make others whole.") And yet we continue to write, paint, sculpt and compose. Is this foolish of us? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Something - a flick of color, the faint beat of the earth under my feet, or maybe my name in someone's thoughts - made me lift my eyes. — Patricia A. McKillip

Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip. — Kris Kidd