Finenome Quotes & Sayings

One cannot cross the same river twice. — David Mitchell

His golden locks Time hath to silver turned,
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,
But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing. — George Peele

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs. — Rousas John Rushdoony

The golden age is before us, not behind us. — Simon The Zealot

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes. — Jamie Wyeth

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime. — Gertrude Stein

Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing. — John Bunyan

The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT. — Shepard Fairey

We preach Christ crucified. The cross is the focal point in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. It was no afterthought or emergency measure with God. Christ was "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" [Revelation 3:8 KJV]. — Billy Graham

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first. — Robert Jordan

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started. — Alan Shepard

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. — Bill Keller

If ego is the voice that tells us we're better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us. One — Ryan Holiday

If a work of architecture consists of forms and contents that combine to create a strong fundamental mood powerful enough to affect us, it may possess the qualities of a work of art. This art has, however, nothing to do with interesting configurations or originality. It is concerned with insights and understanding, and above all truth. Perhaps poetry is unexpected truth. It lives in stillness. Architecture's artistic task is to give this still expectancy a form. The building itself is never poetic. At most, it may possess subtle qualities, which, at certain moments, permit us to understand something that we were never able to understand in quite this way before. — Peter Zumthor

Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, What do you suppose the old fox meant by that? — Ronald Reagan