Barzal Islanders Quotes & Sayings

I cannot be contained ... bec ause I am the container — Jim Carrey

We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion ... — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Can a Thing exist without any Attributes belonging to it? — Lewis Carroll

Her husband's desire had always been more to chase and capture the gleam of the person inside the body than the body itself. — Lauren Groff

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes. — Alice Hamilton

My greatness does not extend to this shelf. — Victor Hugo

I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year. — Victoria Beckham

Films are for everyone, collective, generous, with children cheering when the cavalry arrives. And they're even better on TV: two can watch and comment. But your books are selfish. Solitary. Some of them can't even be read, they fall to bits if you open them. A person who's interested only in books doesn't need other people, and that frightens me — Arturo Perez-Reverte

We'll never find that one, and I'll be blamed," announced Edd Tollett, the dour grey-haired squire everyone called Dolorous Edd. "Nothing ever goes missing that they don't look at me, ever since that time I lost my horse. As if that could be helped. He was white and it was snowing, what did they expected — George R R Martin

Happiness is fine, in its season, but happiness out of season is a sure harbinger of doom. — Terri Cheney

In 1950, America had a unique dominance of the "free world" and it could afford to be generous, so it was: We had more money than we knew what to do with, so we absolved our allies of paying for their own security. Thanks to American defense welfare, NATO is a military alliance made up of allies that no longer have militaries.
In the Cold War, that had a kind of logic: Europe was the designated battlefield, so, whether or not they had any tanks, they had, very literally, skin in the game. But the Cold War ended and NATO lingered on, evolving into a global Super Friends made up of folks who aren't Super and don't like each other terribly much. — Mark Steyn

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record. — Lita Ford

To be a saint is to will the one thing. — Soren Kierkegaard