Nevsky Prospekt Quotes & Sayings

I sat down, turning the pages of my notebook in search of a blank page, in the dim light of my room. The arrival of nightfall had invited leafy shadows to play hide and seek in the glass reflection of the window. I smiled as one of these mischievous shadows crept across the page in a midnight dance. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman — Guru Nanak

To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including yourself, depends upon you, I think there's a lot of ego involved in such a view, not much self-transcendence. — Frederick Lenz

Social evolution is demonstrated by movement towards unity, not separatism. — Neale Donald Walsch

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness. — Nick Nolte

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them. — Joe Dante

School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons. — Gordon Pirie

The world champion rider in any event was at one time a beginner — Richard Shrake

[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another. — George Washington

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud. — Margaret Atwood