Nobreza Quotes & Sayings

You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top. — Blaise Pascal

It's strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what's real and what's imaginary. — Jason Mraz

Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They're bored with their lives, and there's nothing they can do about it. They're eaten alive by longing, and they're dead before they die. — Lev Grossman

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction. — Idries Shah

Does my soul suffer
When my body breaks down
When I feel mortal
When my body is weak
Does the soul rejoice
The end is near — A.A. Patawaran

France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers. — Napoleon Bonaparte

NOBREZA SILENCIOSA. SILENT NOBILITY. It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes forever must be loud and shrill dramatics, washed away by fierce internal surges. This is a kitschy fairy tale started by boozing journalists, flashbulb-seeking filmmakers and authors whose minds look like tabloids. In truth, the dramatics of a life-determining experience are often unbelievably soft. It has so little akin to the bang, the flash, of the volcanic eruption that, at the moment it is made, the experience is often not even noticed. When it deploys its revolutionary effect and plunges a life into a brand-new light giving it a brand-new melody, it does that silently and in this wonderful silence resides its special nobility. — Pascal Mercier

I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art ... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda. — Beck

Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but this time on a universal scale, humankind is seeking no less than its reunion with 'divine,' its transcendence into higher forms of life. — Robert Muller

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. — Samuel Johnson

I only said 'Titanic' is unwatchable because one can not watch it. — Sidney Lumet

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. — Gautama Buddha

I don't want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three. — Scott Berkun

I was so cold I almost got married. — Shelley Winters