Dzirnavu 102a Quotes & Sayings

Language is present in a piece of writing like the sea in a single drop. — Kato Lomb

Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas. — Mona Charen

Secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water. — Tom Sutcliffe

What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded. — Bruce L. Shelley

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite. — Eric Liu

I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers. — Adam Rickitt

People who believe in excellence are full of patience, they are passionate of what they do and they don't cut corners. They invest their time in pursuit of being the best in everything they do. — Euginia Herlihy

Alfred would not listen. He was a clever man, perhaps as clever as any man born, but he did not understand battle. He did not understand that battle is not just about numbers, it is not about moving tall pieces, and it is not even about who has the advantage in ground, but about passion and madness and a screaming, ungovernable rage. — Bernard Cornwell

Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.
Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
That ocean of eternal peace is you.
What is the difficulty that we suffer from?
It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself. — H.W.L. Poonja

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. — Theodor Adorno

He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Well, any time you're faced with fame on that level, it's - it can be somewhat unnerving because you're never taught how to manage it and how to deal with it. So you're sort of left out there on your own, trying to navigate those waters for yourself. — Jason Priestley