Batise Al Quotes & Sayings

There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence ... On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels. — Richard M. Weaver

They spoke three languages between them, and there weren't enough words to convey what they'd take to the grave, what they'd had a chance to taste before fate inevitably closed in. Dom — L.A. Witt

Discussion keeps a house alive. It cannot stand by bricks and mortar alone. — E. M. Forster

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

recognise him as a person who is lonely as opposed to solitary, who did not choose to be on his own but involuntarily lost people until he was. — Sara Baume

There's a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning — Jimmy Somerville

I wanted a Blaine but ended up with a Duckie. — Ashley Edward Miller

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don't at first recognize it for what it is. — Sherwood Smith

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen. — Marion Cotillard

No one has the Houdini school of composition. — Morton Feldman

People have two deaths: the first at the end of their lives, when they go away, and the second at the end of the memory of their lives, when all who remember them are gone. Then a person quits the world completely. — Raghu Karnad

My job is simply to proclaim the Gospel, and to let the Spirit of God apply in the individual hearts. When I give the invitation for people to receive Christ it will be so quiet you can hear a pin drop. And you will see people coming forward deliberately, quietly, reverently, thoughtfully, and many of their lives ... will have been transformed and changed in that moment. — Billy Graham

Every act I live while I am fully awake can not help but be both prayer and lovemaking. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer