Mestdagh Glas Quotes & Sayings

As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered. — Ann Druyan

It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable. — David Maraniss

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light. — Franz Kafka

Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman. — Diana Wynne Jones

Instinct told him whatever just happened had to do with the February Owens he loved becoming an altogether different February Owens. — Kristen Ashley

Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of. — Xenocrates

Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one. — Daniel M. Gilbert

A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home. — Uday Kotak

I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering, stomach-churning insecurity of being alive. The standard subjects of history, geography, mathematics, and English seemed perversely designed to ignore the questions that really mattered. As soon as I had some inkling of what 'philosophy' meant, I was puzzled as to why we were not taught it. And my skepticism about religion only grew as I failed to see what the vicars and priests I encountered gained from their faith. They struck me either as insincere, pious, and aloof or just bumblingly good-natured. (p. 10) — Stephen Batchelor