Dantian Quotes & Sayings

Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things. — Zoroaster

Stephen King once wrote: 'Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away.. and in the end.. there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again. — Lucas Scott

I still find it tough to be around girls because I always say the wrong thing. If a friend asks me if I look fat in something, I'll be honest and say 'Yeah' when she does. — Kelly Osbourne

He said, I don't know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you no one would come. — Claudia Rankine

Remember that you are a Black Swan. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We do not serve spirits to the ladies.'
'As you have probably guessed, I am not a lady — M.R.C. Kasasian

You don't have to listen to those mean girls. They're just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too. But they don't wanna admit it to anybody. — Amanda Seyfried

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas. — Mark Millar

The best teacher is the one who teaches you how to be your own teacher! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When any person harms you, or speaks badly of you, remember that he acts or speaks from a supposition of its being his duty. Now, it is not possible that he should follow what appears right to you, but what appears so to himself. Therefore, if he judges from a wrong appearance, he is the person hurt, since he too is the person deceived. For if anyone should suppose a true proposition to be false, the proposition is not hurt, but he who is deceived about it. Setting out, then, from these principles, you will meekly bear a person who reviles you, for you will say upon every occasion, "It seemed so to him."
... — Epictetus

Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement. — Joseph Priestley

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most literal way, everything that is there and respond to it. To put it another way, the statement the image makes - not just what it show you, but the mood, moral evaluation and casual connections it suggest - is built up from those details. A proper 'reading' of a photograph sees and responds to them consciously. — Howard S. Becker

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting. — John Corbett

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others. — Frank Oz