Levantasse Quotes & Sayings

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors. — Charlize Theron

This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and dismal societies. Many now do not even hope for a better society, but they recognize it when they encounter it, and that discovery shines out even through the namelessness of their experience. Others recognize it, grasp it, and make something of it, and long-term social and political transformations, both good and bad, arise from the wreckage. The door to this ear's potential paradises is in hell. — Rebecca Solnit

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books. — Arthur Ransome

The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have hitherto read your Bible to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a keystone, a compass without a needle, a clock without a spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you; it will not deliver your soul from hell. — J.C. Ryle

Dangerous forces lie within me. You awaken them, and not to your advantage. You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Every day you should be doing right what you recognized as wrong the day before. Obviously. — Jedidiah James Brown

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. — William E. Gladstone

Love makes us happy and that is also a love which makes us sad and keeps in trouble. — Minesh Shakya

Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you've been passed by. — Clayton Christensen

Kaz was going to kill her. She was going to kill Kaz. — Leigh Bardugo