Postupnosti Quotes & Sayings

What art does is coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous — Jeanette Winterson

I am a rare species, not a stereotype. — Ivan E. Coyote

Oh teach the mind t' aetherial heights to rise,
And view familiar, in its native skies,
Thy source of good; thy splendor to descry,
And on thy self, undazled, fix her eye.
Oh quicken this dull mass of mortal clay;
Shine through the soul, and drive its clouds away!
For thou art Light. In thee the righteous find
Calm rest, and soft serenity of mind;
Thee they regard alone; to thee they tend;
At once our great original and end,
At once our means, our end, our guide, our way,
Our utmost bound, and our eternal stay! — Boethius

In truth, I don't care about making feminism more accessible to anyone. — Roxane Gay

False accusations of rape are a form of rape itself. . . . . The power to falsely accuse a man of rape is a coveted power that permits women to destroy a man with a mere accusation . . . . notwithstanding widespread propaganda to the contrary, the real rate of false accusations of rape, according to FBI statistics sixty percent (60%). — John Davis

Let the juices that are stirred into new life flow at this creative bloodletting of our artistic beings. (Zoltan Galos) — Z.J. Galos

When something seems 'the most obvious thing in the world' it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up. — Bertolt Brecht

It should have been you, she told him. Then she turned back to Bran and began to weep, — George R R Martin

The answers will always be no," he says.
I smile sadly over my shoulder. "Always is a very long time. — Kelly St. Clare

Narcissists (and often, by contagion, their unfortunate victims) don't talk, or communicate: they fend off, hide and evade . . . [They] perfect the ability of saying nothing in lengthy Castro-like speeches. Their locution is impregnated with first person pronouns ("I", "me", "my", "mine" - aka "high pronoun density").

The ensuing convoluted sentences are .. a lack of commitment elevated to an ideology. The narcissist prefers to wait and see what procrastination brings: postponement of the inevitable leads to the inevitability of postponement as a strategy of survival. — Sam Vaknin

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be. — Paul David Tripp

Alas, that's what adulthood is supposed to be about: "an overcoming" or (better yet) "a disciplining of a developmentally appropriate insanity. — Jennifer Senior

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do. — Joseph Sobran

I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents — John Steinbeck