Nadijda Quotes & Sayings

While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance. — William Dampier

The fact that it's hard to create an original British musical doesn't mean you shouldn't try. — Gurinder Chadha

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray. — Saint Francis De Sales

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. — Susan Sontag

The most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, — Herman Melville

Let us not satisfy ourselves with a knowledge of God in the mass; a glance upon a picture never directs you to the discerning the worth and art of it. — Stephen Charnock

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue. — Nicolas Winding Refn

The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation. — Aristotle.

The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends. — Bokar Rinpoche