Payiz Sekli Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes to win, you have to change the game. — J. B. Bernstein

I feel obligated to tell you that adventures are, on a whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs. — Michael McClung

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors. — Kate Morton

It quite often makes me feel sad that painting's like a bad mistress one might have, who's always spending, spending and it's never enough.. [Letter 630, Arles, 23 June 1888] — Vincent Van Gogh

The Cloud of Unknowing was written by someone who was exceedingly tough-minded in the sense in which William James used the phrase. He was most unsentimental, matter of fact, and down to earth; and he regarded this habit of mind as a prerequisite for the work in which he was engaged. He proceeded upon the belief that when an individual undertakes to bring his life into relation to God, he is embarking upon a serious and demanding task, a task that leaves no leeway for self-deception or illusion. It requires the most rigorous dedication and self-knowledge. The Cloud of Unknowing is therefore a book of strong and earnest thinking. It makes a realistic appraisal of the problems and weaknesses of individual human beings, for it regards man's imperfections as the raw material to be worked with in carrying out the discipline of spiritual development. — Ira Progoff

When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns. — Heber J. Grant

Genius is intuition on fire. — Holbrook Jackson

Haven't we had another climatically dysfunctional scorcher of a summer this year? Novian. Chapter 1. — Loron-Jon Stokes

Wisest is she who knows she does not know. — Jostein Gaarder

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul — Andrei Tarkovsky

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. — Friedrich Nietzsche

She left a lingering smudge of smoke on the sky, and two vanishing trails of foam on the water. — Joseph Conrad

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for. — Johnny Weir