Nyrick Quotes & Sayings

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness. — Oscar Wilde

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art. — James Elkins

The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach
condemnation without discussion
can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door. — Barack Obama

The incarnation is the Biblical bulwark against the false spiritualization of Christianity — Arnold Albert Van Ruler

If you feel you don't have enough, you hold on to things," he said. "But if you feel you have enough, you let go of things. — Garth Stein

And as for my father? No, he wouldn't ever walk through those gates; I now knew that. Whatever Thomas Stone had, wherever he was at this moment, he had no idea what he'd given up in the exchange. — Abraham Verghese