Euphyllia Paraancora Quotes & Sayings

And yet in Britain, despite the constant buffetings of history, English survived. It is a cherishable irony that a language that succeeded almost by stealth, treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants, should one day become the most important and successful language in the world. — Bill Bryson

His voice, you might say, became the place where he lived, the way other people live in their furniture or gestures — Carol Shields

Look in, and know the mind is all that is; And knowing, feeling it is all, Then have ye all. — Robert B. Leighton

99 percent of success is built on failure. — Charles Kettering

You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed! — Eddie McClintock

Acting's more of a business for me now. — Randy Quaid

I am talking about self absorbtion. If you think about it, the human race is pretty self absorbed. Racism might be the symptoms of a greater disease, What I mean is, as a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have a fight against this force, this current within me that more often than not wants to avoid serious issues and wants to please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all that. All I am saying is that if we , as a species could fix our self absorption, we could end a lot of pain in the world. — Donald Miller

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect. — Mark Twain

The peak of empathogens can be characterised as earthly paradise in comparison to the heavenly paradise of LSD and hallucinogens of that category. — Claudio Naranjo

When you lie things become harder to grasp, but honesty will take you right to the thing you desire. — Marty Vaughn

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys. — Lucien Febvre

I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it. — Sally Mann

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. — Clay Shirky

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered — Thomas Hughes