Kv Rov Hri Te Quotes & Sayings

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. — Ralph Ellison

One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts. — Herman Melville

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face. — Richard Chenevix Trench

As a genius St. Paul cannot be compared with either Plato or Shakespeare, as a coiner of beautiful similes he comes pretty low down in the scale, as a stylist his name is quite obscure--and as an upholsterer: well, I frankly admit I have no idea how to place him. — Soren Kierkegaard

You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love. — Sarvesh Jain

The Phrygians ... select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

There's nothing worse than the day you find out that your parents are nasty, horny mortals like everyone else. It just kills your childhood. — Candice Raquel Lee

All of us are trying to get desired results before the time which universe decides for us. We don't try to understand the mechanism of the universe. — Hina Hashmi

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete. — John Myhill

Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything - the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of a primal universal presence. I have dedicated my life and creative energy to capturing these transcendent moments in which a connection is made between the subject, the photographer, and the viewer. — Joyce Tenneson

Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact. — Eckhart Tolle

Pleasure and pain moreover supply the motives of desire and of avoidance, and the springs of conduct generally. This being so, it clearly follows that actions are right and praiseworthy only as being a means to the attainment of a life of pleasure. But that which is not itself a means to anything else, but to which all else is a means, is what the Greeks term the telos, the highest, ultimate or final Good. — Epicurus