Danismanlik Quotes & Sayings

Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts. — Mary McCarthy

And yet there's nothing to understand. The problem is that children believe what adults say and, once they're adults themselves, they exact their revenge by deceiving their own children. "Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is" is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late. The mystery remains intact, but all your available energy has long ago been wasted on stupid things. All that's left is to anesthetize yourself by trying to hide the fact that you can't find any meaning in your life, ... — Muriel Barbery

Work at it night and day. — Horace

I guess the thing about exposing your heart is that people may not even notice it. Like a flop movie. Or they'll borrow your heart and they'll forget to return it to you. — Douglas Coupland

I risked my life for you. So don't you ever again disrespect the risks I took by claiming you weren't worth it! — Jennifer A. Nielsen

You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than coincidence. — Scott Neustadter

Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy. — C. D. Broad

The only thing you can ever ask for is that, like what I was saying with memories, that somehow my music can fit into somebody's memory. If it can be the soundtrack to somebody's happy days then that would be amazing. — George Ezra

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity? — Romano Prodi

Sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections. — Ellen Wittlinger

Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt. — Izaak Walton

We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization. — Joan D. Chittister

Second, you are alive. For the tiniest moment in the span of eternity you have the miraculous privilege to exist. — Bill Bryson