Bilyana Petrova Quotes & Sayings

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

And since there are three scales of intelligence, one which understands by itself, a second which understands what is shown it by others, and a third which understands neither by itself nor on the showing of others, the first of which is most excellent, the second good, but the third worthless, — Niccolo Machiavelli

Good equippers do like Jesus did it: recruit twelve, graduate eleven, and focus on three. — Lynn Anderson

I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it. — Ken Watanabe

You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing. — Genevieve Gerard

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. — Christian Lous Lange

The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries. It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means toward it. — Doris Lessing

The consciousness and life force do what they want ...
one minute they put energy to repairing the damaged wing of a butterfly
and the next minute they send a whole town crushing with tremendous force ...
who can work it out? — Mooji

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!" — T.D. Jakes

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door. — Beau Willimon

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me. — Casey James

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do. — Daniel Clowes

The "distant country" is the world in which everything considered holy at home is disregarded. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her. — Charles Yu

Action, not philosophy will get you going. Pick yourself up and move forward. That is the only way you can still enjoy life while you are blessed to be living it. — Charles F. Glassman