Philips Encompass Quotes & Sayings

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do. — Hermann Hesse

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. — Rebecca West

I spent four months trying to kiss you and the last six weeks trying to figure out how I managed to fuck everything up. — Rainbow Rowell

All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence. — Deborah Tannen

We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states. — Margaret Thatcher

Jurgis stood upright; trembling with passion, his hands clenched and his arms upraised, his whole soul ablaze with hatred and defiance. Ten thousand curses upon them and their law! Their justice - it was a lie, it was a lie, a hideous, brutal lie, a thing too black and hateful for any world but a world of nightmares. It was a sham and a loathsome mockery. There was no justice, there was no right, anywhere in it - it was only force, it was tyranny, the will and the power, reckless and unrestrained! They — Upton Sinclair

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow. — Jim Cooper

If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc. — David Cottrell

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ. — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

Our top priority is to relieve suffering of human beings. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail. — Daniel Quinn

Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone. — Mary Oliver