Frikkie En Quotes & Sayings

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God. — Angelo Scola

Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. — Tomas Transtromer

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. — Philip Levine

Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can't be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that's never been created is God. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic. — Jim Butcher

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. — Isaac Asimov

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read. — Pyotr Kropotkin

Choose your own attitude. Don't let another choose it for you. — Susan Gaddis

You don't choose a story, it chooses you. — Robert Penn Warren

Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it's like there's no more magic - if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother? — Thomas Bangalter

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings. — Pope Pius XII

I treated her like she belonged to me, even though I wouldn't have her and I wouldn't let her have me, either. — Robin York