Nangon Quotes & Sayings

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. — J.G. Holland

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. Unfortunately — Douglas Adams

I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again? — Peter S. Beagle

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier — Gustave Flaubert

Love is like the North Star. In a changing world, it's always constant. — Gordon B. Hinckley

She rediscovered me under all that rubble, and that means I'll always be a little bit hers. — Emery Lord

Of the various qualities of leadership, women were rated far, far ahead of men on being "honest," "intelligent," "compassionate," "outgoing," and "creative," and were considered just as "hardworking" and "ambitious" as men. Men were perceived as excelling only in being "decisive."1 The preference for men as leaders, then, suggests that the frame for respondents emphasized the role of decisiveness in leadership. — Linda Tarr-Whelan

The purpose of birth is learning
The purpose of learning is to grasp the Divine
The purpose of apprehending the Divine
is to maintain the endurance of one who apprehends
with the joy of apprehending — Abraham Abulafia

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. — Victor Borge