Presocratics Quotes & Sayings

Nature can give us happiness and sadness. — Jan Jansen

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind. — Joshua Reynolds

We are so used to considering everything through the prism of our current feelings and our most recent acquisitions that it is a radical change to consider the vast before. But if we would live well, it is necessary. — Eugene H. Peterson

It's today: all of yesterday was falling
between fingers of light and sleepy eyes, — Pablo Neruda

It's like my karate teacher says - you are more alive when you are feeling pain than when you are so careful that you feel nothing. — Annabel Monaghan

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. — Henry David Thoreau

The reason this will happen, and happen soon, is that learners will demand it to the point that management, teachers and administrators can no longer resist. The workers of the Games Generations will no longer accept, attend, or do training that is boring. So — Marc Prensky

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten. — Markus Zusak

The Bible is a living Book and can be trusted for its advice and direction and knowledge of God. — Billy Graham

When emotions are high, things are said, things are done. Ultimately, these players want to play. I know too many of them love the game too much. — Wayne Gretzky

The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view, in some previous life ... have been my mother - for which I do apologize for the trouble I caused you. — Robert Thurman

Unlike classical liberalism, which saw the government as a necessary evil, or simply a benign but voluntary social contract for free men to enter into willingly, the belief that the entire society was one organic whole left no room for those who didn't want to behave, let alone "evolve. — Jonah Goldberg

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope. — Friedrich Hayek

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from. — Garrison Keillor

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living. — Julius Lester