Doa2 Ayane Quotes & Sayings

There are no circumstances in the world that determined action cannot alter, unless, perhaps, they are the walls of a prison cell, and even those will dissolve and change, I am told, into the infirmary compartment, at any rate, for the man who can fast with resolution. — H.G.Wells

The state of peace among men living side by side is not the natural state (status naturalis); the natural state is one of war. This does not always mean open hostilities, but at least an unceasing threat of war. A state of peace, therefore, must be established, for in order to be secured against hostility it is not sufficient that hostilities simply be not committed; and, unless this security is pledged to each by his neighbor (a thing that can occur only in a civil state), each may treat his neighbor, from whom he demands this security, as an enemy.3 — Immanuel Kant

But the truth is that the only reason I could understand what I was feeling in that moment was because I had spent years loving her. — Megan Miranda

So your theory would seem to be that lying to yourself is no lie at all because you haven't deceived any third party. And if you then convince yourself of those lies, you'll believe them enough to repeat them to other with the genuine conviction that they're true."
"Something like that," I conceded uneasily. — Zack Love

As she trotted down the stairs, she saw Blake stand up, tucking his piano in his pocket. The day's bright sun had him trapped in his spot in the shade. She stepped into his cover and kissed him.
"Thanks for the roses. And Teddy loves his bow." She brushed her hands through his hair. — Debra Anastasia

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back. — Diana Gabaldon

Why did it happen this way and not otherwise? Because this is how it happened. — Leo Tolstoy

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief
holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The future is always a dystopia in movies. — Alex Cox

But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one. — Jonah Goldberg

Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers. — Jonathan Edwards

23 For the awages of bsin is cdeath; but the dgift of God is eeternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. — Anonymous

The basis of our preferential option for the poor to say: I accompany them not because they are all good, or because I am all good, but because God is good. — Paul Farmer

The kiss of peace, which was part of the ritual of the mass, was the symbol of trust, and no contract, from a wedding to a truce, was complete without it. — Ken Follett

Building cultures of peace is long-haul work, undramatic and unheralded, and often infinitely tedious, and most of the people doing it probably don't even think of themselves as practitioners of nonviolence. Maybe it's time they did. — Carol Lee Flinders