Grodno Quotes & Sayings

We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself ... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets. — Max Frisch

Finish it if you choose only remember, my girl, that one may read at forty what is unsafe at twenty, and that we never can be too careful what food we give that precious yet perilous thing called imagination. — Louisa May Alcott

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors. — Estelle Parsons

Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things. — Edgar H Schein

I take it, since you sought to change matters, I was the one you found boring. — Emma Wildes

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it. — John McCarthy

In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it. — Mother Teresa

Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought. — Robin McKinley

The fact is that the buildings here were not made to speak to the world as we know it, but to the citizens of the USSR. Visible from afar and unfailingly spectacular, they are effectively monuments, ideological markers endowed with an almost mystical aura by their positioning in space and expressive power. "By its incongruity, by its inhuman stature" writes the philosopher Jacques Derrida, "the monumental dimension serves to emphasize the non-representable nature of the very concept that it evokes." This concept, whether in Grodno, Kiev or Dushanbe, is might. The might of power. A power that would soon become illusory and whose crumbling is indeed manifested by the growing stylistic diversity of this architecture. — Frederic Chaubin

God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul. — William Gurnall

I notice small things. I'm a "detail" guy, that's why I'm good at programming. — Holly Peterson