Glavas Nationality Quotes & Sayings

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved. — Heinrich Heine

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive. — Eddie Izzard

It would be good now, I thought, to be in Paris. The afternoon city heat would have gone. It would be good to sit under the trees near the marionette theatre. It would be quiet there now. There would be no one there but a student or two reading. There you could listen to the rustle of leaves unconscious of the pains of humanity in labour, of a civilisation hastening to its own destruction. There, away from this brassy sea and blood-red earth, you could contemplate the twentieth-century tragedy unmoved; unmoved except by pity for mankind fighting to save itself from the primeval ooze that welled from its own subconscious being. — Eric Ambler

Things are going to get unimaginably worse, and they are never, ever, going to get better. — Kurt Vonnegut

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people. — John Shelby Spong

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs. — Catherine Opie

Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who can never, in any circumstances, find fulfilment in the decision to abort. — Pope Benedict XVI

The Agna, liberating instructions of the 'Gnani' [the enlightened one], purifies the mind. Knowledge of the Self [self realization] will give the mind, solutions in every circumstance. — Dada Bhagwan

And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
— Matthew Arnold

Most female models don't have any muscle mass. — Andrej Pejic

The number of things he thought of saying all at once nearly suffocated him. — C.S. Lewis

My clearest memory of Ferriday is driving over to sit in the decaying old Arcade theater in 1978, because unlike Natchez's conservative theaters, the Arcade was showing Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter. To this day, I believe the Arcade owners booked the film because they thought it was a movie about deer hunting, not Vietnam. The Concordia Beacon — Greg Iles

What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from ... pure commodities? A work of art is a gift, not a commodity ... works of art exist simultaneously in two "economies", a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can survive without the market, but where there is no gift, there is no art. — Lewis Hyde

Because the Egyptians had no feeling that events of the moment were transitory, they viewed the present as eternal. The world was static; what seemed like change was only recurrence of the eternal order. Thus, Egyptian literature does not contain careful records of the deeds, or distinctive characteristics of the pharaohs. Rather they are portrayed as the divine ideal, always just, wise, bold, strong, and victorious. — Norman F. Cantor

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork. — Mahatma Gandhi