Ascetical Homilies Quotes & Sayings

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. — J. Carter Brown

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way. — Summer Altice

False love is only blinder. — George Farquhar

In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that the aether cannot be molecular. If it were, it would be a gas, and a pint of it would have the same properties as regards heat, etc., as a pint of air, except that it would not be so heavy. — James Clerk Maxwell

There is considerable hypocrisy in conventionalism. Any thinking person is aware of this paradox; but in dealing with conventional people it is advantageous to treat them as though they were not hypocrites. It isn't a question of faithfulness to your own concepts; it is a matter of compromise so that you can remain an individual without the constant threat of conventional pressures. — Truman Capote

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. — Lee Iacocca

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing. — George Bernard Shaw

Whoo, Frisco nights, the end of the continent and the end of doubt, all dull doubt and tomfoolery, good-by — Jack Kerouac