Nosed And Decked Quotes & Sayings

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you. — Bobby Darnell

I still don't see reports in newspapers about white supremacists who are trying to establish an armed and separatist homeland in the rural Northwest and parts of Canada, yet — Gloria Steinem

You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love. — Sarvesh Jain

It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young. — Candace Parker

The only crime is art. — Gerald Weaver

The world is round. — Cristoforo Colombo

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion. — Louise Bogan

I got to know her well, and we talked about all sorts of things. We understood each other. You could even say I loved her. — Haruki Murakami

At the age of seventeen, Napoleon's religious views started to coalesce, and they did not change much thereafter. Despite being taught by monks, he was never a true Christian, being unconvinced by the divinity of Jesus. He did believe in some kind of divine power, albeit one that seems to have had very limited interaction with the world beyond its original creation. Later he was sometimes seen to cross himself before battle,77 and, as we shall see, he certainly also knew the social utility of religion. But in his personal beliefs he was essentially an Enlightenment sceptic. — Andrew Roberts

She tells everyone she's an introvert." Cordelia sniffed. "It's a sad, psychological malady. Comes from reading way too much Kafka. — Ellen Hart

Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing. — Jeanette

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. — Stephen Hawking

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it. — Michael Leunig

The people will have no need to change their place of concourse; where of old they were wont to sacrifice cattle to demons, thither let them continue to resort on the day of the Saint to whom the Church is dedicated, and slay their beasts, no longer as a sacrifice to demons, but for a social meal in honour of Him whom they now worship. — Pope Gregory I