Gerolamo Induno Quotes & Sayings

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself. — Simone Weil

He is incapable of examining his own pain like a spore on a slide and finding it interesting, interesting. If your own pain is interesting to yo, how much more detached will you be from somebody else's pain ... — Damon Galgut

It was Ruby's favorite kind of story: where the boys lost and the girls won and got a souvenir in the bargain. — Nova Ren Suma

Mrs Edith Garrud famously opened a school of jiu-jitsu and trained 'The Bodyguard', a group of suffragette sympathisers who protected the leaders of the Suffragette Movement from attack during their public appearances. — E.W. Barton-Wright

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. — Chuck Palahniuk

The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path ... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance. — Ezra Taft Benson

I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever. — Robin Hobb

Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall. — Alan Lightman