Ostap Melnyk Quotes & Sayings

GK Chesterton once said that to criticise religion because it leads people to kill each other is like criticising love because it has the same effect. All the best things we have, when abused, will cause bad things to happen. The need for sacrifice, to obey, to make a gift of your life is in all of us and it's a deep thing. In the Islamic world today, people are trying to rejoin themselves to an antiquated and ancient faith and the result is massive violence when they encounter people who have not done that. We'd say that sense of sacrifice is good but only if you're sacrificing your own life; once you sacrifice another's life you've overstepped the mark. — Roger Scruton

Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution. — Staffan De Mistura

Nutshells close and encapsulate, shelter and protect, reduce and simplify, while everything in deconstruction is turned toward opening, exposure, expansion, and complexification, toward releasing unheard of, undreamt of possibilities to come, toward cracking nutshells wherever they appear. — John D. Caputo

I was useless, that I leave my socks hanging on every doorknob in the house. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

A balanced person will get depressed, discouraged, frustrated and angry sometimes, but doesn't direct it towards anybody else. If they do, they quickly realize they made a mistake. — Frederick Lenz

Name-calling will make you an enemy, not an ally, and if that is your objective, then persuasion is probably not what you were after in the first place. — Steven D. Levitt

When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes. — F Scott Fitzgerald

For twenty years and more the whole planet had been bombed, raped, ravaged, and gouged by people whose fury had so exceeded their judgment that the only thing they could think of to do to express their discontent was to kill somebody. — Frederik Pohl

Trying to get the right person in the right job can take a lot of time and energy. Let's face it. Isn't it easier for a leader to just put people where it is most convenient and get on with the work? Once again, this is an area where leaders' desire for action works against them. — John C. Maxwell

Each incident of sexual harassment of woman at workplace results in violation of the fundamental rights of "Gender Equality" and the "Right to Life and Liberty". It is a clear violation of the rights under Articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Constitution. One of the logical consequences of such an incident is also the violation of the victim's fundamental right under Article 19(1)(g). The meaning and content of the fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution of India are of sufficient amplitude to encompass all the facets of gender equality including prevention of sexual harassment or abuse — Anonymous

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it. — Lotte Lehmann

Lada had a sense for power
the fine threads that connected everyone around her, the way those threads could be pulled, tightened, wrapped around someone until they cut off the blood supply.
Or snapped entirely. — Kiersten White

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. — J.M. Barrie

The difference being that a nerd would wear a D&D shirt because he loves D&D while a hipster would wear a D&D shirt because it's ridiculous that he is wearing a D&D shirt. — Chris Hardwick

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by. — Lou Holtz