Cirkonis Quotes & Sayings

Then, when the rhetorician is more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge? - is not that the inference? — Plato

Nothing matters except for the harvest, the gathering in, the adding up, the bringing together, the whole story, the way it happens and happens and goes on happening.
(from "Collision") — Carol Shields

There is no lateness in life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't know whether Europe will accept us, but Africa has already put us on their waiting list. — Minimaks

God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good. — Billy Graham

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence. — John Le Carre

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago. — Billy Sunday

Tears are not arguments. — Machado De Assis

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I know how to create and make people feel something. Honestly, if I didn't do this, I would just have some minimum-wage job in New Mexico, and I would go out on the weekends and make just enough money to pay my insurance and pay for a couple beers, and that would be it. — Freddie Prinze Jr.

I certainly knew from an early age ... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads. — Clive Barker

Watch a man
say, a politician
being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstration of what both he and his interrogators learned in school: all questions have answers, and it is a good thing to give an answer even if there is none to give, even if you don't understand the question, even if the question contains erroneous assumptions, even if you are ignorant of the facts required to answer. Have you ever heard a man being interviewed say, "I don't have the faintest idea," or "I don't know enough even to guess," or "I have been asked that question before, but all my answers to it seem to be wrong?" One does not "blame" men, especially if they are politicians, for providing instant answers to all questions. The public requires that they do, since the public has learned that instant answer giving is the most important sign of an educated man. — Neil Postman