Byelorussia History Quotes & Sayings

And all her unsaid thanks so burned in her heart that all of a sudden she rose and left her tower and went out to the open starlight, and lifted her face to the stars and the place of Orion, and stood all dumb though her thanks were trembling upon her lips; for Alveric had told her one must not pray to the stars. With face upturned to all that wandering host she stood long silent, obedient to Alveric: then she lowered her eyes, and there was a small pool glimmering in the night, in which all the faces of the stars were shining. "To pray to the stars," she said to herself in the night, "is surely wrong. These images in the water are not the stars. I will pray to their images, and the stars will know." And — Lord Dunsany

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed. — Muhammad Iqbal

For loneliness in God must be a dream. — Foundation For Inner Peace

When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place. — Zeljko Ivanek

If you begin to identify yourself with that inner awareness, and then you realize you're not really doing anything. As long as there's the thought, "I'm trying to wake up," that thought of "I" is still there. — Goswami Kriyananda

I stored up the purest words
for making new silences — Alejandra Pizarnik

Sit". I gesture to the chairs.
"I need to tell you something".
"You adore me and are having trouble keeping your hands to yourself?" he suggests.
"No". But my seriousness is lost on him.
He sits and pulls me close. "I'm having trouble keeping my hands to myself — Bethany Griffin

I hope that you two young scholars may never lack superiors who are less intelligent than you; it is the best cure for pride. — Hermann Hesse

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school. — Thomas Friedman

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation. — Ian Schrager