Beat The Lions Quotes & Sayings

Everything is different and nothing is same in the universe. — Zaman Ali

It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got. — Alison Jackson

The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though. — Kit Harington

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy. — Antonio Gramsci

Think of yourself as a detective looking for clues to a book's general theme or idea, alert for anything that will make it clearer. — Mortimer J. Adler

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. — Lao-Tzu

The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all. — Douglas Martin

Humanity is as much lacking as decency. Blood, suffering, does not move them. The court frequents bull and bear baitings; Elizabeth beats her maids, spits upon a courtier's fringed coat, boxes Essex's ears; great ladies beat their children and their servants. "The sixteenth century," he says, "is like a den of lions. Amid passions so strong as these there is not one lacking. Nature appears here in all its violence, but also in all its fullness. If nothing has been softened, nothing has been mutilated. It is the entire man who is displayed, heart, mind, body, senses, with his noblest and finest aspirations, as with his most bestial and savage appetites, without the preponderance of any dominant passion to cast him altogether in one direction, to exalt or degrade him. He has not become rigid as he will under Puritanism. — William Shakespeare

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary. — Jen Pollock Michel

We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington. — Jacque Fresco