Delphoi Quotes & Sayings

I consider it presumption in anyone to pretend to decide what women are or are not, can or cannot be, by natural constitution. They have always hitherto been kept, as far as regards spontaneous development, in so unnatural a state, that their nature cannot but have been greatly distorted and disguised; and no one can safely pronounce that if women's nature were left to choose its direction as freely as men's, and if no artificial bent were attempted to be given to it except that required by the conditions of human society, and given to both sexes alike, there would be any material difference, or perhaps any difference at all, in the character and capacities which would unfold themselves. — John Stuart Mill

The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign.
The Sibyl, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her voice, thanks to the god in her. — Heraclitus

Just follow the day and reach for the sun! — R.J. Palacio

For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs. — Thomas Merton

If you want to achieve what others have achieved you must do precisely what others have done. Success is the art of duplication. — Ronald Petruska

How can tyrants safely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance. — William Shakespeare

If we want to obtain the wisdom of God, we have to be capable of fellowshipping with God on a spiritual level. — Sunday Adelaja

There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior. — Marianne Williamson

Maybe it's just the morning light, but he looks pretty cool standing there with his sword. — Rumiko Takahashi

Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice. — Haruki Murakami

Am I a fool, Lilly?'
'Yes,' she said simply. — Melissa Lynne Blue

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there is finally no telling exactly where it begins, where it ends, or where it places you now. — Chang-rae Lee

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. — Paul De Man