Furia Quotes & Sayings

Man is the carrier of God's image — Sunday Adelaja

But with every step, I felt my anger falling way. Underneath that anger: fear. In the middle of one of her self-help phases, Ivy had once proclaimed that all anger was fear. I'd long since wondered what, if anything, was underneath all fear. — Maria Semple

When I go on my boat or to my vacation houses, where I still unfortunately spend very little time, I don't go with the celebrities I know but with a close group of friends and people who have worked with me for a long time. — Giorgio Armani

I want to be with you. We will be together. I believe I will have less to live for, if I am not with you.
-Jack — Melissa De La Cruz

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Simple truths are never platitudes; they only become commonplace because we fail to live them profoundly. — John Furia Jr.

The difference between us and the papists is that they do not think that the church can be 'the pillar of the truth' unless she presides over the word of God. We, on the other hand, assert that it is because she reverently subjects herself to the word of God that the truth is preserved by her and passed on to others by her hands. — John Calvin

When Euler died, he simply said I am finished and collapsed, to which someone in the audience muttered darkly" Another conjecture of Euler is proved — Paul Erdos

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god ... — Aristotle.

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself. — Walter Payton

To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that. — Lynndie England

Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury - sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal - drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover. The Furies pursue us; Shiva dances his furious dance to create and also to destroy. But never mind about gods! Sara ranting at him represented the human spirit in its purest, least socialized form. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise - the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untramelled lord of creation. — Salman Rushdie

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both. — Zoe Marriott

We must cultivate our garden.
Furia to God one day in seven allots;
The other six to scandal she devotes.
Satan, by false devotion never flammed,
Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned. — Horace Walpole

I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out. — Bill Bruford