Festum Quotes & Sayings

The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the 3,653 days of his sentence, from bell to bell. The extra three were for leap years. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness. - pg. 152
— Brennan Manning

Life at the top may be privileged, but it is not simple. — Sandra Tsing Loh

All men want to be someone else. It's what makes them do greater things with their lives. With the lives they can live. — Claire North

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me. — Philip Emeagwali

We couldn't change anything, and in times of war, people become helpless and vulnerable. — Shannon A. Thompson

James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world. — Jeremy Rifkin