Ashura Kengan Quotes & Sayings

Instincts that worked in the ancestral environment were not sufficient in a world that regulated playground visits and allowed choices between tofu and pizza. — Graeme Simsion

Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence. — Anais Nin

We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity. — Russell M. Nelson

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story. — Karen Kingsbury

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that. — David Hockney

Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts are free, one thing you do not think about: the whole. Beasts have a mind; respect it. Flowers too- look at one. Nature brought forth each petal. There is a mystery that sleeps in metal. Everything feels, and has power over you. — Gerard De Nerval

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is ... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors. — Emil Nolde

They wept because they were friends, and because they were kindhearted, and because they - friends from childhood - had to think about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over. . . — Leo Tolstoy

Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service - He paid mine. — Carl Baugh

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. — Arthur Erickson

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I just kept thinking about what my mom [Hillary Clinton] has said repeatedly when people have asked her similar questions, she's tough and she can take whatever people say about her. — Chelsea Clinton

No one died from infection under Keen ... He (Keen) began to chronicle the results in statistical articles. He was threatened with expulsion from the Pennsylvania Medical Association ... This was in the 1890's ... Finally was accepted as the greatest surgeon in the US. The old man told me - and he started to cry ... 'I nearly went under. I was nearly shut off. — Paul Douglas

To make a commencement requires a mental effort. — Seneca The Younger

A silence fell. Frogs in the night were calling, calling, calling. — Jonathan Franzen