Komarovsky Quotes & Sayings

Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I can't say it more clearly. I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely. — Boris Pasternak

[Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole. — Judith Hanson Lasater

As American culture changes, the scandal of Christianity is increasingly right up front, exactly where it was in the first century. The shaking of American culture will get us back to the question Jesus asked his disciples at Caesarea Philippi: "Who do you say that I am?" As the Bible Belt recedes, those left standing up for Jesus will be those who, like Simon Peter of old, know how to answer that question. Once Christianity is no longer seen as part and parcel of patriotism, the church must offer more than "What would Jesus do?" moralism and the "I vote values" populism to which we've grown accustomed. Good. — Russell D. Moore

My government will respect the will of the people. — Mwai Kibaki

It is she who has a hold on him. Doesn't she see how much he needs her? She has nothing to be afraid of, her conscience is clear. It is he who should be ashamed, and terrified of her giving him away. But that is just what she will never do. To do this she does not have the necessary ruthlessness
Komarovsky's chief asset in dealing with subordinates and weaklings. This is precisely the difference between them. And it is this that makes the whole of life so terrifying. Does it crush you by thunder and lightning? No, by oblique glances and whispered calumny. It is all treachery and ambiguity. Any single thread is as fragile as a cobweb, but just try to pull yourself out of the net, you only become more entangled. And the strong are dominated by the weak and ignoble. — Boris Pasternak

What an ennobling sadness you lent to my evening's enjoyment. — Colette

Xela rapped on the walls. "It's all sedimentary rock, isn't it? Not really solid." "Thus all the beams and supports," said Nate. — Peter Clines

The greatest danger of traditional education is that learning may remain purely verbal. — Mirra Komarovsky

What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence. — Mirra Komarovsky

For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered. — Mirra Komarovsky

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die. — Frank Herbert

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge. — Mirra Komarovsky

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do. — Carl Andre

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil — Margaret Atwood

He made no attempt to move toward me but stood still, his bright blue eyes assessing me. I shivered. He was giving my goose bumps a field day. — Myra McEntire

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development. — Georges Cuvier