Mussia Prus Quotes & Sayings

I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice. — Chance The Rapper

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live. — Donald Kagan

There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough. — Andrew Sullivan

Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill. — Richard Whately

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. — Mignon McLaughlin

Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell

I am in love with what I do. I do it with great passion. — Lailah Gifty Akita

So if the Infernum is an empy interior, what's Heaven in their conception?" I asked, nudging him.
"A second inside-out house, inside, or rather 'outside' the first," he said. "If you cross its threshold, you realize our world, for all its wonder, has been but a shdow, another kind of empitness. Heaven is more than this. — Rachel Hartman

If neonicotinoids are the answer, what was the question? — June Stoyer

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything. — John McPhee

A man needs a team in order to reach God's goal — Sunday Adelaja

It might sound contrary to the wisdom of the world to suggest that one who is burdened with sorrow should give thanks to God. But those who set aside the bottle of bitterness and lift instead the goblet of gratitude can find a purifying drink of healing, peace, and understanding. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details. — Alan Watts