Gusmao Labrunie Quotes & Sayings

A religious symbol conveys its message even if it is no longer consciously understood in every part. For a symbol speaks to the whole human being and not only to the intelligence. — Mircea Eliade

The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad. — Elizabeth David

In her small voice, Persephone said, "I have nothing to add." After a moment of consideration, she added, however, "If you are going to punch someone, don't put your thumb inside your fist. It would be a shame to break it. — Maggie Stiefvater

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us: if the lists are kept open, we may hope that if there be a better truth, it will be found when the human mind is capable of receiving it; and in the meantime we may rely on having attained such approach to truth, as is possible in our own day. This is the amount of certainty attainable by a fallible being, and this the sole way of attaining it. Strange — John Stuart Mill

If the truth should be complex and somewhat disillusioning, it would still not be a merit to substitute for it some more dramatic and comforting simplicity. — Clarence Irving Lewis

I can't help it, Alexis," he said "I want to make you think too much ... and then I want to hear the things you've been thinking too much. — Katie Alender

The More I Read,The More I Get Enlightened About Life.. — Wayne W. Dyer

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."
She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down. — Tamora Pierce

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty. — Andrew Cuomo

The enormous waste of energy that has deliberately been expended on vileness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten. — Ernie J Zelinski