Malterud Vestre Quotes & Sayings

I thought that as I had failed in the contemplation of true existence, I ought to be careful that I did not lose the eye of my soul; as people may injure their bodily eye by observing and gazing on the sun during an eclipse, unless they take the precaution of looking at the image reflected in the water, or in some similar medium ... I was afraid that my soul might be blinded altogether if I looked at things with my eyes or tried by the help of my senses to apprehend them. And I thought that I had better had recourse to ideas, and seek in them truth in existence. I dare to say that the simile is not perfect
for I am far from admitting that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas, sees them only "through a glass darkly," any more than he who sees them in their working and effects. — Socrates

It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true. — R. Kelly

Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved. — Amy Lowell

He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine. — Kitty Kelley

I've researched my readers and discovered that 93% enjoy my novels. — A.P. Greenwood

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time. — Andrew Carnegie

In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the lost boy he'd been back then.
But she had the grown male.
She had him right in her arms, and for a brief moment of whimsy, she imagined that she was never, ever going to let him go. — J.R. Ward

Organization. If you want big words to talk to intellectuals with, that's a fine big word, son, just as many syllables as imagination, and it has a lot more realism in it. — Robert Shea

We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. — Frank Herbert

The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre. — Seth Godin