George C Scott Dr Strangelove Quotes & Sayings

Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them. The result is that the cosmos is out of joint. Instead of humans being God's wise vice-regents over creation, they ignore the creator and try to worship something less demanding, something that will give them a short-term fix of power or pleasure. — N. T. Wright

There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world. — Paul Hawken

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her? — Marcel Proust

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. — Gavyn Davies

Every stage of life has it's valuable lessons to be learn't — Lailah Gifty Akita

Over time I learned that objects and animals are true friends. In the forest I was surrounded by trees, bushes, birds, and small animals. I was not afraid of them. I was sure that they would do nothing harmful to me. I became familiar with cows and with horses, and they provided me with a warmth that has remained with me to this very day. Sometimes it seemed to me that what saved me were the animals I encountered along the way, not the human beings. — Aharon Appelfeld

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about. — Lee Krasner

Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies. — James Whistler

Didn't I tell you, Don't run away from me! Didn't I tell you, In this empty fantasy, Even if for centuries, you wander angrily You'll never find another true companion like me. — Rumi

Chicks before dicks, and all that. — Sylvia Day

It's over, I say, wincing- she punches harder than she realizes. I ignore the pain and run a hand over her hair, because I'm stupid, and inappropriate, and stupid ... — Veronica Roth

That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror. — Nora Ephron