Priidu Juurand Quotes & Sayings

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning. — Frederick Sommer

Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. — Sydney Pollack

This then is Borgia Rome: a city where a traveler entering the gates must still cross acres of country before he reaches the center, where animals still outnumber citizens, goats and cattle grazing the imperial ruins, their insistent teeth pulling weeds - and mortar - from between the stones of history. A city still struggling with a chasm of hardship between rich and poor, still ripped apart by gross family violence. But also a place of growing magnificence and confidence where, for the first time in centuries, the future no longer looks bleaker than the past, and where the new Pope has chosen for himself a name designed to foster a belief in magnificence again. Alexander — Sarah Dunant

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves. — Samuel Johnson

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. — Lord Byron

Developing the cognitive control that leads to a more contemplative Christian life is the key to living as free men and women in post-Christian America. The man whose desires are under the control of his reason is free. The man who does whatever occurs to him is a slave. Untold — Rod Dreher

I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense. — Metta World Peace

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure. — Robert Southwell

I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up. — Masahiro Tanaka

Every man lives at swordspoint. — Ellen Kushner

Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man. — Theocritus

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. — Lois McMaster Bujold