Izvlecna Quotes & Sayings

Grant Allen once said that an Englishman's idea of God was another Englishman twelve feet high, and I suppose that is more or less everybody's idea of God- with the necessary geographical adjustment. Zenith Brown has an idea about God that pleases me. 'God,' says Mrs. Brown, 'is obviously a friendly enough Old Gentleman most of the time, Who wishes us well and tries to see to it that we are reasonably happy. It is equally obvious the He has an idiot brother who takes over the reins whenever God Himself goes fishing. It is when the idiot brother is in charge of things that the world goes wrong and we have wars, famines, and pestilences on earth. — Vincent Starrett

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination. — Noah Richler

Some will call this self-indulgence
(They are lucky not to know its truth)
Some will know the simple fact of pain
This is becoming my normality — Sarah Kane

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn. — Henry Miller

Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it. — Ryan Holiday

He remarked that thinking often spoils everything and that evil usually begins with our thoughts. — Brother Lawrence

I relied on what I wrote to build a bridge which could not be cut down. It was my own self in which I trusted, not seeing self as that last cell from which escape can only come too late. — Anna Kavan

For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff. — Olivier Theyskens

An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration. — B.H. Liddell Hart

What you don't know keeps you poor. — Robert Kiyosaki

Reason is the gatekeeper, but it cannot resist the rushing torrents of emotion — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older. — Hugh Masekela

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are. — Pema Chodron