Najstudent Quotes & Sayings

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord. — Oswald Chambers

I actually never got badly injured - I'm tough as frickin' nails. — Ellen Page

He stood there at the edge of the orchard looking like he would never be whole again. — Tracy Chevalier

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing — Johann Gottfried Herder

I will surpass myself in waves, ah, Lord, and may everything come and fall upon me, even the incomprehension of myself at certain white moments because all I have to do is comply with myself and then nothing will block my path until death-without-fear, from any struggle or rest I will rise up as strong and beautiful as a young horse. — Clarice Lispector

And I was sorry that I had never felt this particular loneliness before - that I had never felt myself so far outside of someone else's dream. Now I felt the deeper weight of my generational chains - my body confined, by history and policy, to certain zones. Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wished I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure. — Steven Millhauser

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet. — Aristotle.