Caravaggio Brainy Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are
an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew. — Donald Barthelme

The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet. — Bruce Feiler

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language. — Will Smith

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification. — Peter Greenaway

The power of our subconscious thoughts and desires attracts good luck. — Debasish Mridha

Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement. — Cholly Atkins

Unfortunately, the story wasn't a novel, and it wasn't fiction. — Aleatha Romig

Little sins are pioneers of hell. — James Howell

It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends ... — J.R.R. Tolkien

Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology, it is a matter of cleanliness. In just this same way anti-Semitism for us has not been a question of ideology but a matter of cleanliness. — Heinrich Himmler

However, I am accustomed to not having what I want. — Lisa Valdez

Charles Spurgeon's words: You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy. — Beth Moore

We can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.
These seem like contradictory principles, but they are not. Free will can take us far, suggests Dr. Schwartz's research, but it cannot carry us infinitely beyond our genetic limits. Bill Gates is never going to be Bill Clinton, no matter how he polishes his social skills, and Bill Clinton can never be Bill Gates, no matter how much time he spends alone with a computer.
We might call this the "rubber band theory" of personality. We are like rubber bands at rest. We are elastic and can stretch ourselves, but only so much. — Susan Cain

These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the city, we'll be able to find creative solutions. — Bob DuPuy