Domni Quotes & Sayings

Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells me that this gift of reason, which they call god-given, may be the match that lights the fires of hell for all who dare to use it, since whatever is not of faith is sin. — Ruth Hurmence Green

And that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like
yourself. But it takes time. — Jojo Moyes

You will find your horizons expanding and your thought processes becoming more creative. That is true mind power! — Stephen Richards

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. — E. M. Forster

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. — William Osler

Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it. — John Berendt

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original. — Horace

The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973. — Brendan I. Koerner

[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras. — William Henry Jackson

I'm drunk-nonsensical tired out. — Robert Frost

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes. — Sol Stein

Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you. — Paramahansa Yogananda

We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will. — Gustave Le Bon

Despite my youth I already suspected that it did no harm to keep my ears open. Just the opposite. In life, danger lies not in not knowing, but in revealing that you do: It is always good to have a sense of the music before the dance begins. — Arturo Perez-Reverte