Floarea De Lotus Quotes & Sayings

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics. — Barbara W. Tuchman

There is great advantage to be gained in distantly estranging ourselves from our age and for once being driven as it were away from its shores back on to the ocean of the world-outlooks of the past. Looking back at the coast from this distance we command a view, no doubt for the first time, of its total configuration, and when we approach it again we have the advantage of understanding it better as a whole than those who have never left it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it. — Isabel Allende

It's an honor to stand for God, and if we want to know where we should be standing, the red letters in the Bible will never steer us wrong. — Monica Johnson

EM Forster never gets any further than warming the tea pot ... Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea. — Katherine Mansfield

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb. — Noam Chomsky

Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance — Albert Maysles

This is because conviction and humility, like faith and doubt, are not opposites; they're dance partners. It's possible to hold your faith with open hands, living with great conviction and yet at the same time humbly admitting that your knowledge and perspective will always be limited. — Rob Bell

If God is love, then any regilion based on hatred, discrimination, punishments and prohibitions is from the Devil. — Kimberly Loskov

Sure, football is a silly game. But have you seen what else is on television? — Pliny The Elder

A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold. — James Salter

Christ will never more come down to earth nor will there be any law-giver, nor will murder cease nor theft, nor rape, and yet ... and yet one expects something, something terrifyingly marvellous and absurd, perhaps a cold lobster with mayonnaise served gratis, perhaps an invention, like the electric light, like television, only more devastating, more soul rending, an invention unthinkable that will bring a shattering calm and void, not the calm and void of death but of life such as the monks dreamed, such as is dreamed still in the Himalayas, in Tibet, in Lahore, in the Aleutian Islands, in Polynesia, in Easter Island, the dream of men before the flood, before the word was written, the dream of cave men and anthropophagists, of those with double sex and short tails, of those who are said to be crazy and have no way of defending themselves because they are outnumbered by those who are not crazy. — Henry Miller

The words 'I Love You' kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. — Aberjhani

If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death. — Kyle Minor

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been offered a role in a sequel to 'The Terminator.' In this one he travels back in time and kills the person who suggested he run for governor. — Conan O'Brien