Lniane Obrusy Quotes & Sayings

of all the natural virtues these four are "cardinal," i.e., the hinges ("cardes") on which all other virtues turn, the foundations on which all the other virtues are built. — Peter Kreeft

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Life and death is like music. Life is the note. Death is the silence. Play your note well. — Robert G. Moons

Under the seams runs the pain. — Anne Carson

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday. — Diego Maradona

I told her, "Hang tight, baby, it's a crazy world." And that, as they say, was that. — Charles Bukowski

They hacked down trees widening rings around their central halls and blistered the land with peasant huts and pigeon fences till the forest looked like an old dog dying of mange. they thinned out the game, killed birds for sport, set accidental fire that would burn for days. their sheep killed hedges, snipped valleys bare, and their pigs nosed up the very roots of what might have grown. hrothgar's tribe made boats to drive farther north and west. there was nothing to stop the advance of man. huge boars fled at the click of a harness. wolves would cower in the glens like foxes when they caught that deadly scent. i was filled with a wordless, obscurely murderous unrest. — John Gardner

We can become fearless as we let go off our grasp on the fear of failure, because failure too is a perception rather than a reality. — Gyalwa Dokhampa

I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way. — Mandy Moore

The man who aims at his own aggrandizement underrates everything else. Compared to his ego the rest of the world is unreal. Thus in order to be fully conscious of the reality of all, one has to be free himself from the bonds of personal desires. This discipline we have to go through to prepare ourselves for our social duties - for sharing the burdens of our fellow-beings. Every endeavor to attain a larger life requires of man "to gain by giving away, and not to be greedy." And thus to expand gradually the consciousness of one's unity with all is the striving of humanity. — Rabindranath Tagore

If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is - is unlawful under - under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things. — Antonin Scalia

Ducking around twisted trees whose fingers are branches spread like cracked ceilings under gray sky. — Markus Zusak

Do not be afraid to be the voice of the voiceless. — Abigal Muchecheti