Konstas Name Quotes & Sayings

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay ... the essay must be pure
pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter. — Virginia Woolf

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel. — Khaled Hosseini

Were the beaux less generous over time? Her assets less marketable? If she had lived to be old, would she have resided in a teacup, to be sipped at intervals beneath some gray moustache? — Barbara Kingsolver

A wise manager knows that it is sometimes more important to listen than to talk. — Eraldo Banovac

Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm 43 years old and I'm the healthiest candidate for the Presidency of the United States. You've travelled with me enough to know that I'm not going to die in office. — John F. Kennedy

And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want. — Dallas Willard

They said "soon" to each other often, and "soon" gave their plan the weight of something real. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yesterday I talked about cultivating precision, gentleness, and openess, and described how the meditation technique helps us to remember the qualities that we already possess. — Pema Chodron

Thus we find that the unconditioned condition of the goodness of anything is rational nature...To play this role, however, rational nature must itself be something of unconditional value--and end in itself. — Christine M. Korsgaard

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. — George Santayana

You are a cosmic traveler; your body is temporary, but its essence is eternal ... — Dave Zebian