Patetica Ceaikovski Quotes & Sayings

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense. — Talcott Parsons

Our world is rapidly drawing to a close; a new one is about to open. If it is to flourish it will have to rest on deeds as well as faith. The word will have to become flesh. — Henry Miller

It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint. — Alice Neel

It is almost always impossible to get an abused child to admit who's abusing her. — Jodi Picoult

Shift the focus from what you want to do, to how you want to be ... how you want to feel. — Denise Linn

To stand against a crowd would take something more than ordinary courage; something that went beyond human instinct. — Diana Gabaldon

When I was a teenager, most fathers tended to go berserk when I asked their daughters on a date ... I discovered that all fathers go berserk when their daughters start dating. I have to assume this was because all fathers were once teenagers at some point in their lives, so they had no illusions about whether or not the boys were up to something. — Gary Reilly

Blues grew out of the need to live in the brutal world that stood ready in ambush the moment one walked out of the church. — Greil Marcus

Ringer is the perfect balance of what audiences want ot see me do. It's Cruel Intentions meets Buffy. — Sarah Michelle Gellar

When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. — 1 Corinthians 13 11

Of all the things that men may heed
'Tis most of love they sing indeed. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Her small pet spotted him first, barking out a sharp warning from where he stood on guard in the back doorway. Ivy appeared a second later, a broom in hand and her curls held back by a purple and white scarf. "I knew it was you," she said with a slight smile. "You've now been downgraded from 'deadly threat' to 'irritation that won't go away' in Rabbit's bark vocabulary. — Nalini Singh

It's possible, my love, that you are the sun, and I feel your warmth as if I walk in the rays of your happiness, even from here. — Kiera Cass

We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk songs. We also had recordings of nature sounds: thunder, rain, the singing of birds. We switched them on most frequently of all, and we never grew tired of them. It was as if they returned us to Earth. — Anatoly Berezovoy

If you save your breath, I feel like a man you can manage. — Clint Eastwood