Donaghey Christmas Quotes & Sayings

It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part! — William Carlos Williams

You have to learn and keep learning. — Gil Scott-Heron

I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language. — Yuriy Tarnawsky

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time. — Tom Perrotta

I get inspired with passion, I think. I get inspired by people who are just passionate, and it doesn't matter what they do or what they're passionate about. — Neil Jackson

The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods: 'Genuine prayer exists only in religions in which there is a God as a person and a shape and endowed with a will.'
That was stated by a famous Protestant. The anarch does not want to have anything to do with that conception. As for the One God: while he may be able to shape persons, he is not a person himself, and the he is already a patriarchal prejudice.
A neuter One is beyond our grasp, while man converses ten with the Many Gods on equal terms, whether as their inventor or as their discoverer. In any case, it is man who named the gods. This is not to be confused with a high level soliloquy. Divinity must, without a doubt, be inside us and recognized as being inside us; otherwise we would have no concept of gods. — Ernst Junger

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world ... — Pearl S. Buck

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. — Hubert H. Humphrey

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. — Carl R. Rogers

With the mind, it's the eternal argument.
With the heart, it's the eternal song. — Elizabeth Fox Brewer

Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits to the yoke of communal servitude. Yet given a full chance to act in his own interest, nothing but expediency will restrain him from brutalizing, from maiming, from murdering his brother, his mate, his parent, or his child. Scratch an 'altruist' and watch a 'hypocrite' bleed. — Michael Ghiselin

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music. — Charley Pride

Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they're young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that. — Kodi Smit-McPhee

Now listen, guuuyyysss! Come on guys. Let's all, come on, let's be simple about this. — Robert Pattinson

He was like a man into whose life a woman, whom he has seen for a moment passing by, has brought a new form of beauty, which strengthens and enlarges his own power of perception, without his knowing even whether he is ever to see her again whom he loves already, although he knows nothing of her, not even her name. — Marcel Proust