Mhanga Nafsi Quotes & Sayings

An amazing find happens after using multispectral imaging in a crumbling literary treasure blackened by fire — Unknown

It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one. — Richelle E. Goodrich

In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas. — Alison Weir

Sometimes I feel like a junkie. One minute something happens in my life and I'm flying. Next minute I take a nose-dive and just as I'm about to hit the ground with full force something else will have me flying again. — Melina Marchetta

Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience. — Etgar Keret

We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value. — Martin Sheen

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. — Francis Bacon

I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack. — Wilford Brimley

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her will not be saved. — Pope Gregory I

I had no ambition to become an actor at all. — Danny Huston

The tragic emotion, in fact, is a face looking two ways, towards terror and towards pity, both of which are phases of it. You see I use the word ARREST. I mean that the tragic emotion is static. Or rather the dramatic emotion is. The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts. The esthetic emotion (I used the general term) is therefore static. The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing. — James Joyce

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind. — John Kluge

Generations of parents have upheld this line if thinking. When a daughter showed a promise of talent, they saw it as a curse and worried that she would die young. Eventually, the very lack of talent became a sure sign of virtue for women. — He Zhen

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. — Paul Fussell

I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world. — Imtiaz Ali