Briljant Quotes & Sayings

I'm kind of a recluse. — Faye Dunaway

The transcendental face of art is always a form of prayer. — John Berger

But the Holy Spirit is a force of consciousness within us that "delivers us from Hell," or fear, whenever we consciously ask Him to, working with us on the Causal level, transforming our thoughts from fear to love. — Marianne Williamson

Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. — Marianne Williamson

Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist. — Val Kilmer

Not all relationships are meant to last, they're just practice for the one that does — Linda Poindexter

He looked down through the green transparency to the stony bottom webbed with golden lines. Never still. If his soul could cast a reflection so briljant, and so intensely sweet, he might beg God to make such use of him. But that would be too childish. The actual sphere is not clear like this, but turbulent, angry. A vast human action is going on. Death watches. So if you have some happiness, conceal it. And when your heart is full, keep your mouth shut also. — Saul Bellow

A great mentor always uses his/her own way to dig deep and squeezes out all the hidden talents and gifts. — Euginia Herlihy

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next? — A.J.P. Taylor

Nevertheless, in some ways I had lost touch with many of the currents of French culture and theoretical discussion after the 1960s, and, although any admirer of Queneau and Perec cannot but be sympathetic to the French intellectual tradition of playing games with language, as French thinkers increasingly moved into the territory of 'postmodernism' I found them uninteresting, incomprehensible, and in any case of not much use to historians. Even their puns failed to grip. — Eric Hobsbawm

It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way. — Jon Katz

With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time. — John C. Maxwell