Athenagoras Patriarch Quotes & Sayings

Go free those held captive, and free the souls who are bound in the darkness." -Driscoll — Brittany L. Engels

I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger. — Aime Cesaire

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts ... it is to teach them to think. — Robert M. Hutchins

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is ... He must have models with which to agree ... or outright oppose ... for Nature seems to remain silence. — Charles Bartlett Johnson

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition. — Lidia Bastianich

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws. — Michel De Montaigne

Heaven knows, I'm the easiest woman in the world to get on with, but I will not be bullied by any man. After all, I have my self-respect to think of. — W. Somerset Maugham

There are many ways in which journalists can mislead a reader with science: they can cherry-pick the evidence, or massage the statistics; they can pit hysteria and emotion against cold, bland statements from authority figures. — Ben Goldacre

I missed him so much I would sometimes turn to tell him something before I forgot he was gone. In spite of all that, and all the emotion boiling around inside me, all I could think of to say was: You're blue. — Rick Riordan

Teaching mathematics, like teaching any art, requires the ability to inspire the student. Inspiration requires marketing, and marketing requires stirring communication. — Hartosh Singh Bal

No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the Seventies than there are in 2013. This a time when silence is not acceptable at all. If the conversation cannot be had publicly in our industry, then there is something inherently wrong. — Iman Abdulmajid

We've learned from this that death can hurt us. It can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up a night. But we've also learned the things that death cannot do. It cannot crush our hopes. It cannot take away the love and support of our family and friends. It cannot make us lose our unending faith in world and in God. It has saddened us, but it will not prevail. — John Corey Whaley

Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is. — Adyashanti