Niculae Quotes & Sayings

But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover
the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt realism and objectivity of innocence. Or if we cannot do that, we
must try at least to shake off the cloud of mere custom and see the thing as new, if only by seeing it as unnatural.
Things that may well be familiar so long as familiarity breeds affection had much better become unfamiliar when familiarity breeds contempt. For in connection with things so great as are here considered, whatever our view of them,
contempt must be a mistake. Indeed contempt must be an illusion. We must invoke the most wild and soaring sort of
imagination; the imagination that can see what is there. — G.K. Chesterton

Chi is developed through meditation, through studying with one who has a great deal of it. — Frederick Lenz

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses. — Bertrand Russell

When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that. — Andre Rieu

Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention. — Peter Diamandis

Honscheid came over from West Germany for the first Hawaiian World Cup and discovered jumping, which was new to him, although Mike Horgan and I were jumping in 1974 and 1975. There — Eric Von Hippel

I would be moving in the cold of the settling evening, the few stars in the chasm overhead, the only way I could still myself at all: move. — Peter Heller

When I was a kid, three years old, I couldn't walk by the piano without reaching up and trying to play a few notes on it. There are kids who are just drawn to listening to music and dancing to it and trying to conduct. — Michael Tilson Thomas

The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel. — Baba Kalyani

I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it. — Sarah Paulson

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career. — Robyn Davidson

Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns. For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen. — Rajneesh

As my father used to say: There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend. — Patrick Rothfuss

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change. — Kevin Spacey

I don't read the Bible; I study the Bible. It's my GPS system. I use it to navigate my way through life. — Jhordynn