Diyez Sirasi Quotes & Sayings

There were thus two things which the Savior did for us by becoming Man. He banished death from us and made us anew; and, invisible and imperceptible as in Himself He is, He became visible through His works and revealed Himself as the Word of the Father, the Ruler and King of the whole creation. — Athanasius Of Alexandria

Paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness — John Lennon

329. - We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery - we only dislike the method. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions. — Maurice Allais

In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy. — David Sheff

More people than ever before look to government as their best chance of securing well-being rather than as their inevitable enemy. Politics as a contest to capture state power has at times apparently replaced religion (sometimes even appearing to eclipse market economics) as the focus of faith that can move mountains. — J.M. Roberts

The real protagonist of the story, however, is the magic ring, because it is the movements of the ring that determine those of the characters and because it is the ring that establishes the relationships between them. Around the magic object there forms a kind of force field that is in fact the territory of the story itself. We might say that the magic object is an outward and visible sign that reveals the connection between people or between events ... We might even say that in a narrative any object is always magic. — Italo Calvino

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for. — Jennifer Lopez

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else. — Mark Forsyth

The kulaks were contagious. Their souls were contagious. They carried the spores of counter-revolution. — Robert Harris

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. — Hubert H. Humphrey