Ermisch Russia Quotes & Sayings

We think about our future selves like different people. We often idealize them, expecting our future selves to do what our present selves cannot manage. — Kelly McGonigal

A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests. — Novalis

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you. — Richard Rohr

No doubt, our love persisted, but in practice it served nothing; it was an inert mass within us, sterile as crime of a life sentence. It had declined on a patience that led nowhere, a dogged expectation. — Albert Camus

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done. — Winston Churchill

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever. — Leos Carax

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy. — Margaret Thatcher

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning. — Dan Aykroyd

Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself.
"I'm never afraid," answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here. — Tove Jansson

We believe that the creation of a woman was the crowning and final and most glorified moment of human creation. That we start with light & dark and land & sea and we move through fish & fowl & beasts of the field and we get to Adam and it's still not good enough. And only when Eve was created
this is our theology [ ... ]
that is our theology, that the crowning creation and the glory of the human experience came with the creation of Eve. — Jeffrey R. Holland

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. — Lee R. Raymond

The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones ... — Joseph Priestley

Always remember, the person we're really working for is the person who's restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He's the one we want to impress. — Donna Tartt