Kalben Murat Quotes & Sayings

People always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser ... — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers. — Steve Bartlett

Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it. — Julia Cameron

Think of RepRap as a China on your desktop. — Chris DiBona

The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them. — Michael Lewis

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction. — Oliver Goldsmith

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling. — D.H. Lawrence

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure. — James Stockdale

For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see. — Frederick Lenz

In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man. — Henry Highland Garnet

There is seldom a physical description of a character or scene in Pride and Prejudice and yet we feel that we have seen each of these characters and their intimate worlds; we feel we know them, and sense their surroundings. We can see Elizabeth's reaction to Darcy's denunciation of her beauty, Mrs. Bennet chattering at the dinner table or Elizabeth and Darcy walking in and out of the shadows of the Pemberley estate. The amazing thing is that all of this is created mainly through tone - different tones of voice, words that become haughty and naughty, soft, harsh, coaxing, insinuating, insensible, vain.
The sense of touch that is missing from Austen's novels is replaced by a tension, an erotic texture of sounds and silences. She manages to create a feeling of longing by setting characters who want each other at odds. — Azar Nafisi

businessmen learned quickly that working-class tourists had money to spend, too. What they lacked in sophistication they made up for in numbers. — Nelson Johnson