Nestorians Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

If you were older, darlin', I'd have you on the back of my bike and in my fuckin' bed. And you'd be not just likin' it, but lovin' it, beggin' me for more. — Madeline Sheehan

I was feeling like the only person in the world. So I went downstairs. — Auric Adams

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people. — Sofia Coppola

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know. — John Ruskin

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. — Anton Chekhov

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity. In this sphere, wisdom, which may be defined as the exercise of judgment acting on experience, common sense and available information, is less operative and more frustrated than it should be. Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests? Why does intelligent mental process seem so often not to function? — Barbara W. Tuchman

Honour is
Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps
All perfect justice in her arms; that craves
No more respect than that she gives; that does
Nothing but what she'll suffer. — Philip Massinger

That odd infallible sliding-like-crystal air on water that means day's left dawn for morning. — H.D.

Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something
related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot
separate technique from expression. There is only expression. — Kimon Nicolaides

Meeting Hettie again made him achingly conscious once more of the irrefutable nature of his obsession with her. Obsession - or love? Or was it something more unhealthy - a kind of craving, an addiction? — William Boyd

If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use. — Vincent Van Gogh

When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray. — R.A. Torrey

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy. — Oliver North

I've always been a bit of a documentarian. — Ian MacKaye