Katarina Rostova Quotes & Sayings

She continued her study of the lines and colors embedded in my skin. — S.L. Jennings

More than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations ... the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materiality -luce irigaray — Luce Irigaray

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't, this world would end at once. — Barbara Kingsolver

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it. — Philippe Petit

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don't know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else? — Rebecca Solnit

Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success. — Thomas A Kempis

18The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be. — Dita Von Teese

God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him. — John Piper

Empower children lives and they will be able to change the world! — Timothy Pina

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold. Their knowledge of the fine arts is some study of rules and particulars, or some limited judgment of color or form which is exercised for amusement or for show. It is a proof of the shallowness of the doctrine of beauty, as it lies in the minds of our amateurs, that men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it was also something in Sandy herself, an unwillingness to allow anything more to upset the realm of her understanding. — Anthony Doerr