Batchvarova Quotes & Sayings

He picked up a pen and moved a couple of papers on the desk. He'd seen a human in a movie do that as a way to end a meeting. Apparenty the females hadn't seen that movie. — Anne Bishop

Regardless of where you are and where you think you should be, you is where you is. Accept that fact. And at the same time, become aware of and accept another universal fact: the only constant is change. You are always exactly where you need to be... — Jordan Finneseth

Twenty-four hundred years ago, the ageing and grumpy Plato, in Book VII of the Laws, gave his definition of scientific illiteracy: Who is unable to count one, two, three, or to distinguish odd from even numbers, or is unable to count at all, or reckon night and day, and who is totally unacquainted with the revolution of the Sun and Moon, and the other stars . . . All freemen, I conceive, should learn as much of these branches of knowledge as every child in Egypt is taught when he learns the alphabet. In that country arithmetical games have been invented for the use of mere children, which they learn as pleasure and amusement ... I ... have late in life heard with amazement of our ignorance in these matters; to me we appear to be more like pigs than men, and I am quite ashamed, not only of myself, but of all Greeks. — Anonymous

Fate is a crazy thing. — Saumya Sharman

The mob loves those who amuse and serve it. But to amuse it you have to love it. I love no one, least of all the mob, because the mob, the multitude, are like women: they betray those who love them. — Pitigrilli

Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership. — Sherry K. White

Protestantism's evolution away from hierarchy and authority has enormous consequences for America and the world. On the one hand, the democratization of religion runs parallel to political democratization. The king of England, questioning the pope, inspires English subjects to question the king and his Anglican bishops. Such dissent is backed up by a Bible full of handy Scripture arguing for arguing with one's kIng. This is the root of self-government in the English-speaking world. — Sarah Vowell

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it. — Anderson Cooper

A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do. — Jim Kaat

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess. — Mary Astell

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things. — Walter F. Ulmer

If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building. — John Ortberg

God is mystery, surpassing the senses and all knowledge, and yet God is at the core of our being. — Amos Smith

I talk to friends who get their feelings hurt when they read Twitter mentions. I have an amazing solution - don't read Twitter mentions. — Sarah Silverman