Athonite Gerontikon Quotes & Sayings

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. — Lee Iacocca

I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY — George Orwell

You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else ... — Anthony Quinn

The strike spread with the speed of telepathy. — H.W. Brands

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Act upon your love ... Breathe romance back into your relationship ... Let your enthusiasm break the monotony ... You deserve a love that is alive ... Bring it to life! — Steve Maraboli

Oh, and you must not forget the Kris Kringle. The child must believe in him until she reaches the age of six."
" I KNOW there is not Santa Claus."
"Yet you must teach the child that these things are so."
"Why? When I, myself, do not believe?"
"Because ... the child must have a valuable things which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which [to] live things that never were. It is necessary that she BELIEVE. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. — Betty Smith

Do you know why we will win this war?" Vosch asks us after we're locked inside. "Why we cannot lose? Because we know how you think. We've been watching you for six thousand years. When the pyramids rose in the Egyptian desert, we were watching you. When Caesar burned the library at Alexandria, we were watching you. When you crucified that first-century Jewish peasant, we were watching. When Columbus set foot in the New World ... when you fought a war to free millions of your fellow humans from bondage ... when you learned how to split the atom ... when you first ventured beyond your atmosphere ... What — Rick Yancey

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. — Eckhart Tolle

We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity. — Frederick Lenz

Lord Carradice managed to look wicked, smug, and saintly, all at the same time. — Anne Gracie

Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through. — Sharon Salzberg

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced. — Henry Wallich

Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early. — Kate Middleton