D Mmerung Quotes & Sayings

We write the earth we stand upon. — Laura K. Cowan

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman. — Hannah Arendt

Some girls can skate but I personally believe that skateboarding is not for girls at all. Not one bit. — Nyjah Huston

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent. — Albert Einstein

I hunger and thirst so for a bed on the ground that, once freed, I don't believe I can ever go into New York chains again. What a problem-- to have a primeval soul and one's home in New York! — Natalie Curtis

Unfortunately, this world is full of people who are ready to think the worst when they see a man sneaking out of the wrong bedroom in the middle of the night. — Will Cuppy

It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected. — Edmund Burke

A good man's prayers are golden recompense!" rejoined old Roger Chillingworth, as he took his leave. "Yea, they are the current gold coin of the New Jerusalem, with the King's own mint-mark on them! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Augustine Of Hippo

The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity. — Wendy Lesser

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. — Stella Adler

When we infuse our actions with a focus on God and on the many blessings we receive in even the most mundane moments of our lives, we create sacred rituals that bring a sense of holiness, a sense of wholeness, to what we do and who we are. Like the Eucharistic feast that nourishes our heart and soul, every meal we eat with mindfulness[,] each bite we take with gratitude, has the power to transform us inside and out, for all time. — Mary DeTurris Poust