Duena Alfonsa Quotes & Sayings

Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science encourages conceit. He is above his companions. A hieroglyphic is a spell. The gnostic dogma is cuneiform writing to the million. Moreover, the vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself in a child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shells. — Robert Aris Willmott

Terror is a passion which always produces delight when it does not press too close. — Edmund Burke

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking ... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all. — Cote De Pablo

We, in
that instant, lost,
breathless to be witnesses,
as if we stood
ourselves refreshed among
the shining fauna of that fire. — William Carlos Williams

I'm not a diva - not yet, anyway. — Amanda Latona

When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months. — Tariq Ali

I'm certain I taste like a boiled potato," she declared. He — Grace Draven

It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success. — Napoleon Hill

My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that problem with the elevator last year. I don't care what anyone says, that wasn't my fault. when a giant scorpion the size of an Irish wolfhound is tearing its way through the roof of your elevator car, you get real willing to take desperate measures. — Jim Butcher

This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. — John Simon