Barones Van Quotes & Sayings

Ask and expect an answer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

The question from agnosticism is, 'who turned on the lights?' The question from faith is 'whatever for?' Thoreau climbed Mount Katahdin and gives vent to an almost outraged sense of the reality of the things of this world: "I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries- think of our life in nature-daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,- rocks, trees, wind! — Annie Dillard

Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich." — Hal Elrod

If I got married one day and settled down, I would love to have more children. — Rebecca Ferguson

You go to school to get a job, and you get a job to take time off to do nothing. Why not do nothing to begin with?
Pierre Anthon — Janne Teller

As Pacific Ocean nations, competition and cooperation between the two nations will create a new atmosphere - leading to the Birth of a 'Pacific' New World Order - that is more engaging and less confrontational; this can be characterized by the presence of force without war. — Patrick Mendis

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. — H.L. Mencken

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy? — Steve Erickson

Carnivalization is not an external and immobile schema which is imposed upon ready-made content; it is, rather, an extraordinarily flexible form of artistic visualization, a peculiar sort of heuristic principle making possible the discovery of new and as yet unseen things. By relativizing all that was externally stable, set and ready-made, carnivalization with its pathos of change and renewal permitted Dostoevsky to penetrate into the deepest layers of man and human relationships. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. — John Dewey

For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in my brain. Which I guess is a great advantage. — Kelly Blatz

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever. — Isabel Paterson