Grand Ages Medieval Quotes & Sayings

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough. — Thomas Sowell

I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese. — Deborah Smith

Kindness is like a warm ray of sunlight, reaching out, touching and healing the hurting soul. — Heather Wolf

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts. — Dizzy Gillespie

My small friend, do you really understand? Or are you just looking for pity? Do you want me to say "It's not your fault, it was determined by fate"? Or do you want me to say, "You have done enough, rest, for now"?
My small friend. When the day comes, that you truly understand the meaning of the word "Path", is the day we shall talk about "Inactivity". — Da Xia

For heaven's sake, you even delivered yourself to my front door. — Charlie N. Holmberg

Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room. — Audra McDonald

Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal's physical health problems by listening to the animals. — Bernie Siegel

The odds of finding the one you truly love above all else, is about 1 in 4 billion. The odds that the person you love, loves you back... don't even dream about it, it's not going to happen. Most couples today do not revolve around real love. — Dylan West

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. — Alexander Pope

Didn't use a condom," he says with genuine regret in his eyes. "I'm sorry, I got so carried away. You're on birth control, right? — Jodi Ellen Malpas

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling. — Dorothy Allison

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own. — Zhang Yimou