Faciendum Quod Quotes & Sayings

The Modern Day Black Woman, an Outcast of American Society — Delano Johnson

The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others. — Pico Iyer

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. — Jodi Picoult

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell. — Fareed Zakaria

We fed 'em Xmas and New Years; now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas — Will Rogers

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.
That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. — Cecil Castellucci

This was a syllogistic monstrosity even worse than the last, thought Wimsey. A man who could reason like that could not reason at all. He constructed a new syllogism for himself. The man who committed this murder was not a fool. Weldon is a fool. Therefore Weldon did not commit this murder. That appeared to be sound, so far as it went. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object, and that the highest powers of his soul, his understanding, will, and affections might be fully satisfied, that he might have full contentment. — Richard Sibbes

By "love" people mean a certain kind of monopoly, some possessiveness, without understanding a simple fact of life: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed that person. Life — Osho

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all. — Jodi Picoult

If there's one good thing to be said about opera, it's that it makes a man appreciate all other forms of entertainment so much more. — Mark Lawrence

Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky. — Heidi W. Durrow

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. — Dalai Lama XIV

Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree. — Rainer Maria Rilke