Berdoz Optic Quotes & Sayings

The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I'm benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day, because I know that if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other and to that extent I can accept myself. — James Nachtwey

The age of kings is dead, Adamat, and I have killed it. — Brian McClellan

In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. — Mary Renault

Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet. — Joel Fuhrman

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that. — Paul Reiser

In 1231, Pope Gregory ordered the Dominicans to take charge of papal courts and decisions and so prevent mob rule and guarantee that the accused received a fair trial and the right of defence. This was the foundation of the Inquisition, and it was a move to organize, control, and limit violence, disruption, and division. Of course, it often failed and even achieved the opposite of its stated and original purpose, but it's surprising how often in an age of casual and brutal violence a relative moderation and legality was achieved. Civil law was far harsher than canon law, demanding confiscation of a heretic's property and usually death, something the Church had tried to prevent for generations. — Michael Coren

We live by promises not by explanations. — Adrian Rogers

The danger of having too close deadlines ... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough. — Judith Weir

Life is a daring adventure, so suffering should be optional. — Debasish Mridha

Satanic forces are here and they are not friendly! — Chuck Missler

It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory ... — Albert Einstein

My heart is beating like it's lonely, like there's nothing else inside of me. — Junot Diaz

a flesh-and-blood waiter and therefore as rare in San Francisco as a flying horse, — Christie Golden

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures. — Paul Simonon