Misattribution Of Emotion Quotes & Sayings

When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl, one can see the city of God. It is so wonderful that it seems as if a child could reach it in a summer's day. And so a child could. But with me and such as me it is different. One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. It is so difficult to keep 'heights that the soul is competent to gain.' We think in eternity, but we move slowly through time; and how slowly time goes with us who lie in prison I need not tell again, nor of the weariness and despair that creep back into one's cell, and into the cell of one's heart, with such strange insistence that one has, as it were, to garnish and sweep one's house for their coming, as for an unwelcome guest, or a bitter master, or a slave whose slave it is one's chance or choice to be. — Oscar Wilde

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth. — Maria Montessori

Faith is caught rather than taught. — Henrietta Mears

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes. — Paul Scheuring

The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions that are neither necessary or congenital: matter is matter, neither noble nor vile, infinitely transformable, and its proximate origin is of no importance whatsoever. Nitrogen is nitrogen, it passes miraculously from the air into plants, from these into animals, and from animals into us; when its function in our body is exhausted, we eliminate it, but it still remains nitrogen, aseptic, innocent. — Primo Levi

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you plan to wake up tomorrow, plan for it. — Saji Ijiyemi

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves. — Banksy

Nothing dies in Hell. — John Patrick Kennedy

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year. — Piper Perabo