Fakires Quotes & Sayings

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists. — Colin R. Davis

If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. And we will discover that the treasure-house of education has stood intact and unshaken in the storm. The man of cultivated life has founded his house upon a rock. You can never take away the magnificent mansion of his mind. — John Cudahy

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something. — Orison Swett Marden

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don't really think most people really understand what they've seen. — Jerry Seinfeld

Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been careful can feel when confronted by a mistake. — John Irving

Been to yesterdays,
lived through todays.
Looking on toward tomorrows -
new characters, new plays.
The whys of life change,
and so do ways,
new scenery is built,
to fill an empty stage. — Lee Bennett Hopkins

Could you maybe not admire the evil enemy quite as much, and focus on how we're going to get out of this? — Rachel Caine

In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of Greek mythology), that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill - the method of allegorical interpretation. This mighty 'two-handed engine at the door' of the theologian is warranted to make a speedy end of any and every moral or intellectual difficulty, by showing that, taken allegorically or, as it is otherwise said, 'poetically' or, 'in a spiritual sense,' the plainest words mean whatever a pious interpreter desires they should mean. — Thomas Henry Huxley

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never. — Michel De Montaigne

She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought- and never worried about it again. — Ayn Rand

All the most fascinating subjects leave...no...shadows. But we keep watching and waiting just in case. — R.J. Askew

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave. — C.L.R. James