Graving Lionfish Quotes & Sayings

There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us. — Marilynne Robinson

A wise man differs from the ordinary;
in understanding, knowing and experiencing what Truth is all about. — Gian Kumar

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get. — Thomas Carlyle

God predetermine the path for each sacred soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Because he knew that he was coming for the last time. That morning he had been expelled from the Architectural School of the Stanton Institute of Technology. — Ayn Rand

St. Thomas Aquinas understood virtues to be habitual or abiding dispositions that help us to realize the good in our decisions and actions. These habitual dispositions, acquired through repetition and an effort over time (and, at the same time, given to us by God through grace), make accomplishing the good easier, more immediate, requiring less internal deliberation and struggle. — Mark O'Keefe

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past. — Truman Capote

That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me. — Debra Dean

It's very hard for me to be a good girlfriend to him, when you're always interfering... It must be even harder for you to be a good girlfriend when I'm the one who's always inside you. — Stylo Fantome

If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public. — Isocrates

A great man may commence life in a hovel. — Publilius Syrus

War is not women's history. — Virginia Woolf