D S Ncenin Es Anlamlisi Quotes & Sayings

I should have hoped to have trained him, my lady, to understand the rules of discretion."
"Trained! Train a barn-door fowl to be a pheasant, Mr. Horner! That would be the easier task. But you did right to speak of discretion rather than honour. Discretion looks to the consequences of actions - honour looks to the action itself, and is an instinct rather than a virtue. After all, it is possible you might have trained him to be discreet. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself. — Eric Clapton

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators. — George Leonard

Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing. — Zoe Leonard

Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon — Matsuo Basho

When you fall in love, friends, let yourself fall. — Doug Dorst

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that. — Edward De Bono

The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary. — Philip Yancey

You all right?" he asked.
I felt dizzy. "Yeah. Lots of blood, though ... "
"The head always bleeds a lot," Luke told me. "Remember when I fell from the chandelier?"
I smiled through my nausea. "Yeah."
"And from that third-story window?"
"Yeah."
"And from the flagpole of our Montessori school?"
"I remember." I managed a small laugh. "But I'm surprised you do. — Flynn Meaney

Unfortunately, our society is a victim of such a world system which does not encourage people to live consciously and become who they were called to be — Sunday Adelaja

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine. — Erich Fromm

The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service. — Dave Barry

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow. — Margot Asquith