Delsarte System Quotes & Sayings

It is time we admitted, from kings and presidents on down, that there is no evidence that any of our books was authored by the Creator of the universe. The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology. To rely on such a document as the basis for our worldview-however heroic the efforts of redactors- is to repudiate two thousand years of civilizing insights that the human mind has only just begun to inscribe upon itself through secular politics and scientific culture. We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself. — Sam Harris

Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect. — Baruch Spinoza

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier. — Michael Caine

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence- — Friedrich Nietzsche

Relax, Phyra. I'd be more concerned if he were in here with my son than with my daughter. The biggest threat he poses is he might want to borrow her shoes. (Stryker) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light. — Susan Jeffers

I just love getting dirty. — Robin Wright

An expectation is defined as "an eager anticipation for something to happen." A goal is defined as "a purpose or objective." When we are clinging to expectations, we are waiting for something to happen and giving our power away. — Christine Hassler

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot. — Oscar Wilde

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries? — Ogwo David Emenike

I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living. — Zora Neale Hurston

It's one of those things when you are in a role you have to do what they ask you to do. If they want me to come in and stick it in, I have to come in and stick it in. — Jerome Bettis

In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems. — Henri Cole