Penelope Cruz Maria Elena Quotes & Sayings

Those countries in Europe which are still influenced by priests, are exactly the countries where there is still singing and dancing and coloured dresses and art in the open-air. Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground. Christianity is the only frame which has preserved the pleasure of Paganism. — G.K. Chesterton

We were like two moths around a candle, I thought, circling closer and closer to the flame, waiting to see whose wings would catch fire first. — Tan Twan Eng

Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world ... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable. — Thomas Kuhn

I was here.
I lived.
I mattered.
This is a good way to go. — Elizabeth Norris

Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence. — Lao-Tzu

Asking why is the root of a scientific mindset. — Eraldo Banovac

[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death. — Juvenal

But even though it feels awesome to be back with her, to have her next to me silhouetted by the stars, there is still a certain emptiness here, and something still feels a little bit off. — Jason Myers

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die. — Anton Chekhov

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated. — Samantha Harvey