Ferdowsi Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

What is this peace, different from that which the world gives? This peace is the one your love gives ... a peace greater than suffering, not a peace without war, but a peace in spite of war, during war, above war, the peace of the soul, having, through love, its whole life in heaven and thus enjoying the peace of heaven in spite of everything which may happen on earth around it and against it. - from Michel Carrouges, Soldier of the Spirit — Charles De Foucauld

There is no writers' block, it is just a gitch, a gtch, a tch, shhh. Glitch. — Jordano Quaglia

We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Start to focus on things that unite the races of people instead of things that divide us, and you will have already won the battle, and are a building block to the solution. — Ted Harts

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss. — Christopher Fry

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. — Nigella Lawson

If we wed, Milady, you will belong to me. Your rank will be my rank, and your station will be this croft. I hold that a husband must have his way with his wife in his bed and in his house, and that if she refuses him his way, he must chastise her until she is ready to please him. You will card, and you will spin, and you will cook what I bring in to you, and when I call you to my bed, you will come, and I will have my way. — Emily Tilton

It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem. — Sheena Easton

Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again. — Margaret Mitchell

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. — J.I. Packer

I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal. — Red Grange

[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks ... who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs. — Thomas Sowell

I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion cooled, how dreadful to find a lump of wax and wood laid in my bosom, a half-idiot clasped in my arms, and to remember that I had made of this my equal- nay, my idol- to know that I must pass the rest of my dreary life with a creature incapable of understanding what I said, of appreciating what I thought, or of sympathising with what I felt! — Charlotte Bronte

The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual. — Terence McKenna

If a castle gets destroyed, you just build a new one. If you wanted me to I'd build them over and over. Let's build them together. — Fuyumi Soryo