Pyengana Quotes & Sayings

...the tendency of all men who ever tried to write or talk Ethics or Religion was to run against the boundaries of language. This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions? — Denis Diderot

Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader. — Ann M. Fudge

The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now. — Peter Merry

I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer. — Barry Hannah

Look for rash guards that come treated, for further sun protection, and never forget your hat! — Christie Brinkley

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired. — Michel De Montaigne

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch. — Karsten Harries

He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. — James Joyce

Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
All had been granted but the thing we beg:
And still some great unlikely substitute
Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good
Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon. — Joanna Baillie