Navab Safavieh Quotes & Sayings

The infinite distance between body and mind symbolizes the infinitely more infinite distance between mind and charity, for charity is supernatural.
... Out of all bodies together we could not succeed in creating one little thought. It is impossible, and of a different order. Out of all bodies and minds we could not extract one impulse of true charity. It is impossible, and of a different, supernatural, order. — Blaise Pascal

Sometimes the hearts of people are hard and stiff and cannot be entered quickly or easily. So if you have tried hard to earn the hearts of people and couldn't, do not be upset, or if you have entered a person's heart and did not find the same level of love, do not be sad as this happened to Christ and He is the source of love and He continued treating people with love. But — Shenouda III

Different rates of development on different continents, from 11,000 B.C. to A.D. 1500, were what led to the technological and political inequalities of A.D. 1500. — Jared Diamond

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe. — Adam Hochschild

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy. — Sofia Coppola

Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity. — R.C. Sproul

A soldier is a killer pardoned. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world. — Jane Asher

Time can be misconstrued in so many ways, but its importance should never be underestimated. It is with this that I decided to not chase after time but to silently, gently, deliberately make it count. One day at a time ...
... We have to creatively use time to make a moment that matters. Every single day.
Joanne Crisner Alcayaga, Amazed — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

Only, this was the thing: you'd provided me with the possibility of getting away from myself and making myself at home in another world. You were like a messenger from that world. With you, I could give my real self a rest. You were part and parcel of that dissolving of reality - myself included - that I'd been working on for seven or eight years through writing. For me, you were the herald out in front who showed me how to put the menacing world on hold. In that world I was a refugee whose existence was not legitimate, whose future never went beyond the three months of a temporary visa. I had no desire to come back to earth. I'd found a refuge in a magical experience and I wasn't about to let it get dragged down into reality. As far back as I can remember, I'd always sought not to exist. You've had to work for years on end to get me to accept the fact that I do exist. And I really don't think your work is over yet. — Andre Gorz

NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology. — Steve Sabol

You see that? That big messy spiral of people, moving, trying to find God? I ask them, as the exodus unfolds once again on screen.
That right there is Zion. Get there however you can. — Joanna Brooks

Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation. — Silvio Berlusconi

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror. — Don DeLillo