Perspicacity Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

I assigned myself the role of Lot's wife, because her behavior seemed the most human, the most sinful, and therefore closest to mine. Consumed by curiosity, I was drawn to the magnificent, horrible sight of fire and disaster as houses collapsed and towers folded like dominoes amidst human wailing that rose to the sky. My curiosity, brought to an explosive point by the divine warning, was suddenly transformed into my sole trait, overwhelming reason and the feeling of fear, turning me into a weakling of a woman, unable to resist my inquisitiveness, and I would turn around abruptly with my whole body as if rotated by the centrifugal force of my curiosity, which had passed through me like a sword. — Danilo Kis

I think my confidence offends a lot of people, but I think people should learn from it and be inspired by it, instead of finding it offensive. — Jon Jones

In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds. — Ozwald Boateng

Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for the reality. — Joseph Stanislaw

Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives. — Robert M. Hensel

I'm not a cribber, or someone who criticises. People who criticise are not doers. I'm a doer. — Anupam Kher

Wisdom comes when we acknowledge what we can never know. — Jacqueline Winspear

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer. — Martin Luther

This is a question of freedom," he says. "Which can be discussed until forever, breaking only for sleep, tea, and movable feasts. Would you like to do that? Tell me, if you please, who is more free: an elephant stomping across the savanna or an aphid sitting on the leaf of whatever plant they sit on?" Smoker — Mariam Petrosyan

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. — Charles Dickens

I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that. — Steve Vai

The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God. — Cornelius Van Til

I don't want to be the next anyone. I'm just me. — Juliet Aubrey