Filantropia Bistrita Quotes & Sayings

The only thing you can neither plan nor control, my dearest love, the duke had once told her, is love itself. When you find it, you must yield to it. But only if it is the one and only true passion of your life. Never if it is anything less than that, or life will consume you.
But how am I to know? She had asked him.
You will know. — Mary Balogh

Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers."
That's how some days feel - when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination. — Vera Nazarian

I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now. — Larry Hagman

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience. — D.T. Suzuki

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do. — Thomas A Kempis

I like to have a home for people just to have a lot of fun. — Chelsea Handler

But nobody lives in a universal thing called culture. They live only in specific cultures, each of which differ from one another. Plays written and produced in Germany are three times as likely to have tragic or unhappy endings than plays written and produced in the United States. Half of all people in India and Pakistan say they would marry without love, but only 2 percent of people in Japan would do so. Nearly a quarter of Americans say they are often afraid of saying the wrong things in social situations, whereas 65 percent of all Japanese say they are often afraid. In their book Drunken Comportment, Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton found that in some cultures drunken men get into fights, but in some cultures they almost never do. In some cultures drunken men grow more amorous, but in some cultures they do not. — David Brooks

Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted. — Vladimir Putin

So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it. — Garth Stein

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States. — Adam Fletcher

The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work. — John Andreas Widtsoe

I care not for the girdings of superstition, for superstition is the bitter enemy of knowledge & true morality. Yes; it has come to this! Men who openly confess that they can form no idea of God, & only know him through created things, of which they know not the causes, can unblushingly accuse philosophers of Atheism. — Baruch Spinoza

Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith ... — Eliphas Levi

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies ... — Robert James Waller

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours — Michael Lewis