Kalton Festival Quotes & Sayings

Occasionally, (Einstein) would take rambling walks on his own, which could be dicey. One day someone called the Institute and asked to speak to a particular dean. When his secretary said that the dean wasn't available, the caller hesitatingly asked for Einstein's home address. That was not possible to give out, he was informed. The caller's voice then dropped to a whisper. 'Please don't tell anybody,' he said, 'but I am Dr. Einstein, I'm on my way home, and I've forgotten where my house is. — Walter Isaacson

Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse. — Hudson Taylor

It is an extraordinary thing but it is true, wars are only a means of publicising the things already accomplished. — Gertrude Stein

An idea was needed, a great idea, a grand vision, to grasp the hidden order of the world. Leucippus and Democritus came up with this idea. The idea of Democritus's system is extremely simple: the entire universe is made up of a boundless space in which innumerable atoms run. Space is without limits; has neither an above nor a below; is without a center or a boundary. Atoms have no qualities at all, apart from their shape. They — Carlo Rovelli

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient. — Confucius

Why do you give way to your ego and pride. Where does it stand in the ocean of time. — Naveen Rajeev

My problem is that I appeal to everyone that can do me absolutely no good. — Rodney Dangerfield

It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me. — Justin Timberlake

She sounds... cruel."
"There were many sides to Grace," Fiske said.
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Beatrice leaned closer to the screen. "Grace made her own husband, Nathaniel Harford, an Outcast. — Jude Watson

She's forgotten me. It's over. I don't want to see her again, and now I'll have to. I won't be able to help it. I'll have to sit back and just watch her ... live. Without me."
The ifrit shrugs. "Then I overestimated your feelings for her."
My jaw drops. "How dare you? Because I don't want to see that she's forgotten me?"
"No. Because nothing is really ever gone or forgotten. If she's a piece of you, and you of her, then memory is merely an obstacle - our power covers the memory, it doesn't erase it. And I should think, at least based on what I saw in your eyes last night, that it's an obstacle worth going up against. — Jackson Pearce

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies. — Ernst Mach

Lord, bend me, or I shall rot.
Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break.
Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break! — Nikos Kazantzakis

Systematic yoga and vipassana opens the "Dasham Duar" the mystical tenth spiritual gateway located at the top of the skull. — Amit Ray

In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum. — Geoff Capes