Postulants In Silver Quotes & Sayings

But Lord Arglay, at once in contact and detached, at once faithless and believing, beheld all these things in the light of that fastidious and ironical goodwill which, outside mystical experience, is the finest and noblest capacity man has developed in and against the universe. — Charles Williams

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be. — Paulo Coelho

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin. — Ryan Reynolds

Hollywood is a door leading to a thousand doors — Kensington Roth

She didn't say so, but it suddenly occurred to her that good sex was not knowledge. It was barely information. — Toni Morrison

Fear of death is worse than dying. — Friedrich Schiller

There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally. — Abraham Foxman

And the dog by the fender stretched himself out in the luxuriant vacancy of mind only known to dogs surrounded by a happy group of their friends. — Christopher Morley

It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling - or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste. — Clement Greenberg

What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is no self, there's only infinity. — Frederick Lenz

It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall. — Elena Ferrante

Compassion is not a sometime action; it's an every time passion! You can't be compassionate for less than 7 days in one week ... That's first class hypocrisy! — Israelmore Ayivor

The Law of Inertia states that a body in motion will remain in motion, and a body at rest will remain at rest. In life, nothing will happen when no one will make a move — HaveYouSeenThisGirL

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student. — Paulo Freire

Ravna thought a moment. "Sysadmin is the usual term," she said. — Vernor Vinge