Ensanchan Significado Quotes & Sayings

The more critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes. When reason is overvalued, the individual suffers a loss. Relying more on facts and rationality than on imagination and theory detracts from the quality of a person's intellectual life. — C. G. Jung

Omens were all very well, but sometimes it would help if people just wrote things down. — Terry Pratchett

The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely. — George A. Sheehan

...she knew from school that that sort of literature was boring: Gorky was correct but somehow ponderous; Mayakovsky was very correct but somehow awkward; Saltykov-Shchedrin was progressive, but you could die yawning if you tried to read him through; Turgenev was limited to his nobleman's ideals; Goncharov was associated with the beginnings of Russian capitalism; Lev Tolstoi came to favor patriarchal peasantry - and their teacher did not recommend reading Tolstoi's novels because they were very long and only confused the clear critical essays written about him. And then they reviewed a batch of writers totally unknown to anyone: Dostoyevsky, Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, and Sukhovo-Kobylin. It was true that one did not even have to remember the titles of their works. In all this long procession, only Pushkin shone like a sun. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine. — Henry David Thoreau

What can I do?" he implores. "Just hold me. — Ava Harrison

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued. — Joseph Boyden

Don't be different just to be different. Be different to be better. — Seth Godin

If you listen to the beginning of the whispers you will not have to hear the shouts. — Miranda J. Barrett

Psalm 23:5- "...and my chalice which inebriateth me, how goodly is it!". — Some Guy

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. — George Eliot

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. — Rebecca West

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression. — Louis D. Brandeis

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure! — Rupert Holmes