Barsoum73 Quotes & Sayings

It won't snow on us," I told my hiking companions, "because I lead a good and virtuous life." "We're dead," Dave Long said. — Tim Cahill

Girls need their dads, teenage girls especially so. There's a whole bunch of 'women's stuff' she'll do with her mum, but there's still a huge amount that she will need you for as well. She needs to know that you will always be on her side, no matter what trials life will bring. The easiest way to show her you're on her side is to be by her side as often as you can. — Nigel Latta

Scientists divide. We discriminate. It is the inevitable occupational hazard of our profession that we must break the world into its constituent parts -- genes, atoms, bytes -- before making it whole again. We know of no other mechanism to understand the world: to create the sum of its parts, we must begin by dividing it into the parts of the sum. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

We are ugly but we have the music. — Leonard Cohen

I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape. — Liam Hemsworth

I have assumed, for the present purpose, that Jesus of Nazareth did and said more or less what the four gospels in the New Testament say he did and said. I have written about all that, in debate with those who take radically different viewpoints, in considerable detail elsewhere. Likewise, I have assumed that St. Paul wrote Ephesians and Colossians, something which many scholars in the last century or so have doubted. Actually, the argument of the book doesn't depend on either of these assumptions, and for that reason, in addition to the risk of clogging up the present line of thought, I won't refer to these questions again. — N. T. Wright

Light falls upon a dew drop; rewarding all who are blessed to witness the moments of its glisten. — Truth Devour

Ah, but it wasn't just her lovely face that haunted him. Nor the soft, lush body he was increasingly desperate to see liberated from that woolen cocoon. It was the way she'd so willingly owned up to the truth. The way her spirit had sparked when he'd told her to put aside her art. The way she'd practically made sweet, innocent love to him with her eyes when he'd said he cared if she lived or died.
Good Lord. The laughable irony of it. He'd wasted weeks of his adolescence memorizing sonnets, spent years perfecting little murmured innuendos. Only to learn the most seductive phrase in the English language was something akin to: All things being equal, I'd rather not see you mauled by a shark. — Tessa Dare

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious. — Peter Drucker

If movies generically don't work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully how it was made will be the least of your concern. You'll only want to have a god time. — Steven Spielberg

An upturned tortoise is the ninth most pathetic thing in the entire multiverse. — Terry Pratchett

All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel. — Jo Nesbo

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary. — Charles Eisenstein

Love is the light that casts no shadow. — Elizabeth Lowell

Anyone who can rationalize love through intellect, has no idea what love is, for it is an emotion, and cannot be rationalized. For love is crazy. — L.D. Davis