Oskar's Grandmother Quotes & Sayings

I know that when you talk about something that may hurt someone, reactions are normal, and you are touching some nerves ... But I don't do things because people always like what I do. — Pierfrancesco Favino

Eradicate self-justification.
Then alone can you annihilate your ego. — Sivananda

We often assume that the question, "How can I be happy?" can be successfully answered without reference to the love of God and our neighbors. And the irony is that if our biggest question is our own happiness, we can never know the God in whom we find our ultimate joy and rest. — Michael S. Horton

Forth from the war emerging,a book I have made, the words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything, a book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect, but you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page. — Walt Whitman

It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die. — Hannah Harrington

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious ... — Oscar Wilde

Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot the truth and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars. — Janice Galloway

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations. — Jesse Eisenberg

It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be! — T. J. Miller

He'd concluded that not only should females have the right to vote, they should probably be governing the whole darn country. — Debra Holland

At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly. — Deepak Chopra

Hadrian, an African born, a man accurately learned in the sacred writings as well as trained in monastical and ecclesiastical discipline, and right skilful in the Greek as well as the Latin tongue. This man being called to the pope was willed of him to take the bishopric upon him and travel unto Britain.
[Hadrianus, vir natione Afir, sacris literis diligenter imbutus, monasterialibus simul et ecclesiasticis disciplinis institutus, Graecae pariter et Latinae linguae peritissimus. Hunc ad se accitum Papa iussit episcopatu accepto Brittaniam venire.] — Bede