Jonklaasen Quotes & Sayings

What she had unexpectedly met there in the village church was not God; it was beauty. She knew perfectly well that neither the church nor the litany was beautiful in and of itself, but they were beautiful compared to the construction site, where she spent her days amid the racket of the songs. The mass was beautiful because it appeared to her in a sudden, mysterious revelation as a world betrayed.

From that time on she had known that beauty is a world betrayed. The only way we can encounter it is if its persecutors have overlooked it somewhere. Beauty hides behind the scenes of the May Day parade. If we want to find it, we must demolish the scenary. — Milan Kundera

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience. — David Mamet

I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country ... No other country has such human capital. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings. — Paul Hawken

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives. — Geoffrey Beene

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. — Henry David Thoreau

Do be careful. I can't replace you as easily as all that. — Rachel Caine

Of course, back then I was crimping my hair and wearing enormous shoulder pads that made me look like I played for the Minnesota Vikings. It's amazing anybody got laid in 1985, given what passed for fashion!" "I'll — Alexa Land

We always assume someone else will come to the rescue, but it's never us. Surely somebody will have the decency to be the hero. Right? It doesn't work like that. Not when everyone assumes someone else will do the right thing. — Jeff Goins

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship. — Aristotle.

Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel. — Thomas Campbell

Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man who kills the greatest number of his fellow-creatures. — Leo Tolstoy