Combinado Del Quotes & Sayings

We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men. — Ruskin Bond

You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

A poet is a silent singer; he sings the deep songs of the soul silently. — Debasish Mridha

The late afternoon light came in through the curtains and made his face a study in contrasts. Chiaroscuro, she thought. The art of shadows and light. — Cassandra Clare

If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine that our society can be handled with gloves or long poles. One must make one's self a part of it. If virtue won't answer our purpose, we must use vice, or our opponents will put us out of office, and this was as true in Washington's day as it is now, and always will be. — Henry Adams

You can't order the waves to be silent, madame," Baldanders told her. "They are coming, and they are bitter with salt. — Gene Wolfe

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended. — Thomas Jefferson

Teach a child arithmetic," he said at last, "and he can use it to
cheat with, can't he? Teach a man the laws and forces of the
universe, and he can turn them against his teacher, can't he?
Give a child a box of matches, and there will always be some one
to show him how to set fire to a house. Teach me spiritual knowledge,
and for every one desire to use it rightly I shall have a thousand
impulses to do the wrong thing. Persistence in thinking the wrong
thing makes a man a fool if he is untaught and a dugpa if he knows
too much. Do you think you know enough to be a dugpa? — Talbot Mundy