Kulminace Quotes & Sayings

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit. — William Barrett

Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves in disciplining each other by denouncing any heretics in their midst, they find themselves overwhelmed and outnumbered in America, where there is vibrant debate about all sorts of things they don't know how to begin to talk about. They resort to stomping their feet and shouting "shut up" ... when they aren't prissily imploring everyone to be "civil." — Ann Althouse

If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something traumatic in you, and you'll be harmed by the read of the text because you are still defining yourself through your self-victimization, then you need to see a doctor. — Bret Easton Ellis

I think the hardest step in any journey is not the first one -- it's the next one. We are on a journey where each step that God directs us toward is going to seem to require greater faith and sacrifice than the last one. Once we've begun, we look back at the first step and laugh. It was hard then, but it is never as difficult as the next step. We are going to see that the people God involves in His journey are not people who have incredible, unwavering faith; so much as they are normal people who are willing to take the next step down the path. — Claude Hickman

Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with:
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing ...
Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He. — Saadat Hasan Manto

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects. — Vincente Minnelli