Compagnia Finzi Quotes & Sayings

I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear. — Diana Gabaldon

She'd buy diamond-studded earplugs and go and lie on a beach in the Caribbean where the whining of jealous bastards wouldn't reach her. — Sophie Hannah

Where violence reigns, reason is weak. — Nicolas Chamfort

Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality. — Swami Satchidananda

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Although upon doctrines of grace our views differ from those avowed by Arminian Methodists, we have usually found that on the great evangelical truths we are in full agreement, and we have been comforted by the belief that Wesleyans were solid upon the central doctrines. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones - only those who are depressed or dysphoric come to accurate assessments. — Daniel Nettle

All through his life, he swung between the ridiculous and the sublime, — Marshall McLuhan

For years, I tried medication, blade, work, escape, all attempts to drown out that incessant, reverberating drum of self-rejection. — Ann Voskamp