Brillantina Halka Quotes & Sayings

He who knows himself knows God — Ali R.A

Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become. — Dorothee Solle

When someone thanks God, I don't get offended. — Ricky Gervais

Often, during my stay in your country, such comparisons troubled me. In fact, they did more than trouble me: they made me resentful. Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians. Now our cities were largely unplanned, unsanitary affairs, and America had universities with individual endowments greater than our national budget for education. To be reminded of this vast disparity was, for me, to be ashamed. — Mohsin Hamid

Because spite could be a slow poison to the heart. If there was a lesson to be learned from Hattie, it was that forgiveness was a blessing. It would be a hard, stubborn thing to harbor ill feelings forever, even toward those who deserved it... — Jessica Lawson

I have noticed that music, like solid matter, is essentially crystalline in structure. — Guy Murchie

Yes, people of both genders pop up at events to hold forth on irrelevant things and conspiracy theories, but the out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. — Rebecca Solnit

Was she not forgetting again how strongly she influenced people? — Virginia Woolf

'Monday Mornings' is terrific. It's my wife's show. I'm just lucky enough that David Kelley threw me a bone on it as well. It's a wonderful piece based on a novel by Dr. Sanjay Gupta called 'Monday Mornings.' — Jonathan Silverman

The detached observer's view is one window on the world. — Kenneth L. Pike

This campus was an island of quiet in the city's roar, and at night it was an island of dark in the city's blaze. — Hugh MacLennan

A wolf does not think like a human. — Jack London

An invisible force. Like two magnets. — Kresley Cole

A hospital alone shows what war is. — Erich Maria Remarque