Michael Douglas Romancing The Stone Quotes & Sayings

Young girls should be an or e, not an ache to the ear. — George R R Martin

You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back. — Rick Warren

The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They were the people of The Book in the truest sense of the word. They knew of no greater joy than the study of man and human relations, which they called Torah, Talmud, Mussar, Cabala. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write? — Rainer Maria Rilke

Once Ibrahim bin Adham saw a stone with the inscription, "Turn me over and read!" When he did an inscription appeared: "You do not practice what you know. Why do you seek what you do not know? — Al-Hujwiri

What is knowledge without an impact to society? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience. — Sathya Sai Baba

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary. — Theodore Roosevelt

The truth is, Jung has brought back one member of the old duality, unreason, with a new name; it is no synthesis at all, but only the latest maneuver in the war against rationality that has been conducted with rising hysteria by literary intellectuals and humanists against the laws of a culture they have reason to distrust and disobey. The Jungian theory proposes to every disaffected humanist his "personal myth," as a sanctuary against the modern world. Against the vulgar democracy of intelligence, Jungian theory proposes an aristocracy of feeling. From this proposal derives Jung's persistent influence on modern critical and aesthetic style. — Philip Rieff

Trying to predict the future is a mug's game. But increasingly it's a game we all have to play because the world is changing so fast and we need to have some sort of idea of what the future's actually going to be like because we are going to have to live there, probably next week. — Douglas Adams

It is a sad reflection ... that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things. — Alexander Crummell

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is. — Soren Kierkegaard

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. — Ray Bradbury

Daphne, whatever you could think of in your wildest imagination, there is a game for it and probably has been for a thousand years.' He pulled off his shirt and advanced on her. 'For example, there is the lovely lady taken up against the wall game. I'll show you how it is played. — Madeline Hunter