Djinni Stave Quotes & Sayings

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order. — Gustave Flaubert

The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. — James Allen

At that point in my life, I was not looking for a career. I viewed my first decade after college as a time to explore. I didn't want anchors to hold me down. If something caught my attention, I would try it. If not, I would move on. — George W. Bush

If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect. — George Pendle

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood. — Pete Townshend

Our Saviour identifies His interest with that of suffering humanity. As — Ellen G. White

The only thing success should do is make you more humble. — Don Meyer

There is no greater despair, than to tread with care upon ice that is already broken — Johnathan Jena

[T]he biblical creation story, like the creation stories of other cultures, communicates social and religious values and presents them as if they were universally valid. — Elaine Pagels

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles. — David Foster Wallace

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker. — Christopher Monckton

This thing between them, this bond - it wasn't just passion,
and it wasn't wicked.
It was love, and it was divine. — Julia Quinn

Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before. — Colson Whitehead

That you think I have taught you much already only shows how little you knew to begin. You — Robert Jordan