Parastaseis Quotes & Sayings

That we shall use every discovery of science in the preservation of our children's health goes without saying; but we shall do more than this - we shall give them a free start, not loading them up with our own ideas and experiences, nor advising them to live according to our lights. We were burned in the fire here and there, but - who knows? - fire may not burn our children, and if we warn them away from it they may end by never growing warm. We will not even inflict our cynicism on them as the sentimentality of our fathers was inflicted on us. The most we will do is urge a little doubt, asking that the doubt be exercised on our ideas as well as on all the mortal things in this world. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Principles come and go, but ... human souls are immortal, and you should therefore throw in your lot with the greater part. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth. — Bell Hooks

We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light. — Hildegard Of Bingen

There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world. — Zakes Mda

One of them is probably Michael, I think. All I have to do to find my dad is go to church. — Cynthia Hand

Metaphysics is a science. — Gabriel Marcel

I half hoped Mr. Pearson would waLk out holding Thomas by the scruff of his neck, still wearing his boxers or pajama pants or whatever the hell a guy like him slept in. But seconds later, when Mr. Pearson emerged, he was red with rage and completely alone.
Thomas was gone. — Kate Brian

It does get crazy sometimes, but I've never complained about stopping to give autographs or anything like that. — Jordan Knight

You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case. — Peter Costello

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed. — Christian Lacroix

It was like looking into a dream. An imagination of what seduction in its purest form would look like. This woman was so intense, so deep and utterly sensual, the music flowed right out of her onto the cello and the process moved her so much, she couldn't contain it. It was passion and it pulled him in. — Elly Kamari

I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference. — Widad Akreyi