Iljin Global Quotes & Sayings

In the humanist world following Erasmus, man is at the centre of the universe. Man becomes largely responsible for his own destiny, behaviour and future. This is the new current of thought which finds its manifestation in the writing of the 1590s and the decades which follow. The euphoria of Elizabeth's global affirmation of authority was undermined in these years by intimations of mortality: in 1590 she was 57 years old. No one could tell how much longer her golden age would last; hence, in part, Spenser's attempts to analyse and encapsulate that glory in an epic of the age. This concern about the death of a monarch who - as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen - was both symbol and totem, underscores the deeper realisation that mortality is central to life. After the Reformation, the certainties of heaven and hell were less clear, more debatable, more uncertain. — Ronald Carter

I really do believe it you can live through remodeling a home, you can live the rest of your lives together. — Jennifer Aniston

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it. — Cecil Taylor

The Soul's sacred ground of being is the foundation for your doing.
from the book, Doing a 360, page 135 — Nancy Ash

Ah, Jean-Luc...sometimes I think the only reason I keep coming here is to listen to these wonderful speeches of yours — Q

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John. — Kyle Dunnigan

Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality. — Ashton Applewhite

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal. — Diablo Cody

Almost every ride we're profitable on. We make money on every ride. — Logan Green

If you put a smile on someones face, it was a good day. — Harvey Stelman

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality. — Edmund Burke

I have been intimately involved in the techniques of genetic modification as a scientist since GMOs were first conceived. In that time, hundreds of studies and tests have been done on GMO safety - and we've seen no scientific evidence that GMOs are inherently more dangerous than crops produced by traditional plant breeding. — Richard J. Roberts

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. — Douglas William Jerrold

If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain-we must begin with Christ. We must go to Him as sinners, with no plea but that of utter need, and cast our souls on Him by faith ... If we would grow in holiness and become more sanctified, we must continually go on as we began, and be ever making fresh applications to Christ. — J.C. Ryle