Focurile Vii Quotes & Sayings

Simplicity is the seal of truth! — Herman Boerhaave

Sometimes God has to put us flat on our back before we are looking up to Him. — Jack Graham

Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape. — Debasish Mridha

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways. — Harlan Coben

I liked all their lies best, for I think they are the brightest part of anybody's history. — William Kennedy

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color. — Paul Stanley

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family. — Faith Hill

Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people. — Marat Safin

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in. — Sada Thompson

Common sense ... has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover. — Russell L. Ackoff

Muhammad Ali has a lot to answer for. When he lit the flame at the Atlanta Olympics there wasn't a dry eye on the planet. Why were we crying? Because a great sportsman had been reduced to this-a shuffling, mumbling, twitching cripple. A man who once danced like a butterfly now shook like blancmange.
We always remember sportsmen. When the body deserts a scientist like Stephan Hawking we figure that he'll be able to live in his mind, but a crippled athlete is like a bird with a broken wing. When you soar the heights the landing is harder. — Michael Robotham

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature. — Julius Charles Hare

You can outline the people you've lived with these past years in a few sentences ... yet could you give an account of their lives, their hopes, their dreams? You could try, perhaps, but they would be much the same as yours ... for you are all an inexplicable unity - this family group with its twisted tensions, unreasoning loves and solidarity and loyalty born and bred in blood. These people are the ones most basically responsible for what you are. — Sylvia Plath