Itzkowitz Sheldon Quotes & Sayings

Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves. — Nguyen Du

I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me. — Bede Griffiths

Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known? — Carsten Jensen

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower. — F. Sionil Jose

You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it. — El Greco

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal. — Julian Bond

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for. — Harsha Bhogle

Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present. — Richard G. Scott

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves. — Boris Pasternak

When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be. — Blake Butler

I kiss her long and deep and hard until I feel like I'm running on the fringes of my emotions; they're tearing away at me like hands in Hell reaching out for me as I leap over the flames, trying to pull me down with them into sin, and as hard as I try to get away, a part of me wants them to take me. I want to sin. I want to kiss her.
And so I do.
And I don't stop. — J.A. Redmerski

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me. — Nicolas Chamfort

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me. — Shelley Fabares

Osiris became the type and symbol of resurrection among the Egyptians of all periods, because he was a god who had been originally a mortal and had risen from the dead. — E.A. Wallis Budge