Flegmatick Quotes & Sayings

We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere. — Cate Blanchett

Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb. — David Gordon

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking. — Malala Yousafzai

When the imagination is not controlled and the attention not steadied on the feeling of the wish fulfilled, then no amount of prayer or piety or invocation will produce the desired effect. When you can call up at will whatsoever image you please, when the forms of your imagination are as vivid to you as the forms of nature, you are master of your fate. — Neville Goddard

The story behind every song is individual to itself. — Kelly Jones

Lisa had confessed and Mommy had forgiven her. It had been a long, complicated confession, followed by a brief absolution for all the sins committed--a look, a kiss--nothing more was needed...Oh how wonderful it was to have told the truth at last! How free she felt, as free as air! — Erich Kastner

One of my problems with a lot of things I watch is that everybody's too pretty, and it takes me out of the film because I'm thinking that all these people look like I've seen them in a cafe in Los Angeles. — Cary Fukunaga

God doesn't need you to be your husband's critic, his conscience, or his mother. Neither does he need you to sit down, fold your arms, and say, Okay, that's it. I'm not going to do what I'm supposed to do until my husband starts doing what he's supposed to do. — Tony Evans

To se someone really getting to know who they are is a beautiful, beautiful, thing. — Nancy Jo Sales

But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science. Literature is mankind's organised response to the world around him, or her. — David Nicholls

Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel. — Stephen Kinzer

The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes. — George Herbert