Philostratus Vita Quotes & Sayings

As we grow older, we increase in folly
and in wisdom. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I stay grounded because everyone around me floats — Pharrell Williams

I'm depressed when I don't get to do music. Having to go back to doing something I don't like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing. — Kip Moore

I don't want any part of this. The whole thing kinda freaked me out. I'm sure girls always do what you tell them because you're hot, Brent, but I'm just not that interested."
His head perked up with a wide smiled. "You think I'm hot? — Lani Woodland

smiling with sad eyes I've seen what you've been hiding — R H Sin

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable — Roger Scruton

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres. — Chuck Inglish

While I was fighting, I heard other people speaking in the name of freedom, and the more they defended this unique right, the more enslaved they seemed to be to their parents' wishes, to a marriage in which they had promised to stay with the other person "for the rest of their lives," to the bathroom scales, to their diet, to half-finished projects, to lovers to whom they were incapable of saying "No" or "It's over," to weekends when they were obliged to have lunch with people they didn't even like. Slaves to luxury, to the appearance of luxury, to the appearance of the appearance of luxury. Slaves to a life they had not chosen, but which they had decided to live because someone had managed to convince them that it was all for the best. And so their identical days and nights passed, days and nights in which adventure was just a word in a book or an image on the television that was always on, and whenever a door opened, they would say: "I'm not interested. I'm not in the mood. — Paulo Coelho

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. — Walker Percy

Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think. — Leigh M. Lane

To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift. — Gustavo Gutierrez

In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate. — Nina Fedoroff

Antonio could not stop thinking about Dean Fiero's words during his welcoming speech, "Look to your left; now to your right. One of you will not be here in 1915!" These words were used to intimidate freshman law students to draw their attention to the importance of being diligent in their forthcoming studies. They still are. — Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini