Izumrudnij Quotes & Sayings

103When we try to be something that we are not, we become the slave of a rigid, fixed mind, following a rule about how things have to be. The violence and the anger in us remain unnoticed, because we are caught in our pictures of how we should be. — Charlotte Joko Beck

I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a story where the audience is so in love with the characters that they forget you're even telling a story. — Tim Story

Christ is on both sides: he holdeth up, and throweth down, in one and the same act; he denieth the woman to be his, and is on her side to grace her, to believe that he is her's. Christ putteth his child away, and he desireth that his child should not be put away from him; he is for Jacob in his wrestling, and as if he were against him, saith, 'Let me alone.' Christ here doth both hold and draw, oppose and defend at once. — Samuel Rutherford

Being Mormon is a big part of who I am, and I try very hard to live the right way, but I don't know that I'm an example. I hate to say, 'Yes, look at me. I'm a good example of being Mormon.' I want to be the best person I can be, so in that aspect, maybe I'm a good example. — Stephenie Meyer

Generals are not to be too scrupulous. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Rust through washing never became white. — Idries Shah

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine. — Al Lewis

My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic. — Sheldon Lee Glashow

The novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age. — Robert Musil

Right now, I could do with a little less "Carter, I need you to" and a little more, "Carter, do what you need to do." Hell, maybe even a little, "Carter, do you need help? — Nyrae Dawn

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have. — Joyce Brothers

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service ... — William J. Clinton

Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own. — Russell Lynes

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics. — Win Butler