Philologist Define Quotes & Sayings

In extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury. — Fred Vargas

Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing. — Rob Lowe

The problem lies in the structure of our minds: we don't learn rules, just facts, and only facts. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again. — Marilynne Robinson

If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot. — Bernardo Bertolucci

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging. — Jane Smiley

To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now. — Franz Kafka

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it. — Jim Gaffigan

I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck. — Joe Lando

Obstacles don't have to stop you. — Michael Jordan

So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord - who is the Spirit - makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image. - 2 Corinthians 3:18 — Gary Chapman

Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life. — Charles Stanley

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe. — Reb Anderson

It was instinct to pull back, to let go before I felt him let go first, bu he didn't allow me. — Alexandra Bracken

Niel felt tonight that the right man could still save her, even now. She was still her own indomitable self, going through her old part,--but only the stage hands were left to listen to her. All those who had shared in fine undertakings and bright occasions were gone. — Willa Cather