Motria Melnyk Quotes & Sayings

It is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated. — Jorge Amado

Therefore, at any time of life, follow your own questions; don't mistake other people's questions for your own. — David Whyte

We're all dying," Sergeant Hawkins replied. "From the moment we are born, we begin our journey toward eminent death. All that matters is what we do with the time and gifts we've been given." But — Cameo Renae

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries. — John Masefield

It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things. — Ray Dalio

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape. — Janet Macunovich

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal. — Kevin Richardson

The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy in 1947, I was told that I ought not to use my pistol in their training program because it was not fair. Maybe the first thing one should demand of his sidearm is that it be unfair. — Jeff Cooper

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

I looked at the girl serving refreshments to the guests, with a smile on her face. She was in her teens. She had put on an orange coloured churidar, with a yellow dupatta and had a frame on her eyes,making her chubby face pretty. I felt nothing special about her. That '; wow!' factor was not there. Seconds later, I realised she stepped towards me and served me with a glass of juice and walked away. No talks, no smile, no eye to eye contact and definitely not love at first sight — Kalpa Das

Laypeople are a kind of nuclear energy in the Church on a spiritual level. A layperson caught up with the gospel and living next to other people can "contaminate" two others, and these two, four others, etc. Since lay Christians number not only tens of thousands like the clergy but hundreds of millions, they can truly play a decisive role in spreading the beneficial light of the gospel in the world. — Raniero Cantalamessa

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip. — Robert Maxwell