Filomele Quotes & Sayings

Let us do those things that our heart is asking us to do and from this day forth allow all souls that leave our presence feeling honored and deeply loved. — Molly Friedenfeld

The seer does not see, by choice, what the blind can see by default ... from within. — T.F. Hodge

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. — Kirk Douglas

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees — Mark Rothko

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine. — Jill Clayburgh

I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor. — Dave Smalley

And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice! - EURIPIDES — Ryan Holiday

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me, not then. He was too wounded in the head, too endlessly and terribly sad. Too funny, too explosive, too confusing. Heroes are uncomplicated. *This* makes them do *that* ... But the war does not make sense. War senselessly wounds everyone right down the line. A body bag fits more than just its intended corpse. Take the 58,000 American soldiers lost in Vietnam and multiply by four, five, six - and only then does one begin to realize the damage this war has done ... War when necessary, is unspeakable. When unnecessary, it is unforgivable. It is not an occasion for heroism. It is an occasion only for survival and death. To regard war in any other way only guarantees its inevitable reappearance. — Tom Bissell

Prosperity Comes When You Do the Right Things with Your Life — Ernie J Zelinski

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. — Edward St. Aubyn

Jinnah is a constant source of inspiration for all those who are fighting against racial and group discrimination. — Nelson Mandela

Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself. — Sue Monk Kidd

I have sat in the dark here electric (haha) typer off lights out radio off drinking in the dark lighting cigarettes in the dark there was fire off the match we are all burning together burning brothers and sisters I like it I like it I like it. — Charles Bukowski