Quistgaard Staved Quotes & Sayings

Contained within a given lesson or particular technique is the essence of all techniques. You imitate and study a particular form to grasp the universal principles that allow the technique to work in the first place and that will finally enable you to transcend the form itself to discover the formless. — H.E. Davey

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise. — Alice B. Toklas

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling. — Simon McBurney

Wonder - the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge - promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing ... like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Love which economizes is never true love. — Honore De Balzac

The greater the responsibility, the greater the reward. — Marshall Sylver

Like many spells with unusual names, the Unrobed Ladies was a great deal less exciting than it sounded. — Susanna Clarke

I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it. — Antonio Banderas

Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn't sure where he'd been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else's money. — Ronald Reagan

Cindy had told her to take as much as she wanted from the storage space in the attic because whatever she didn't take was going to charity, so Neni had cheerfully obliged, taking an old Louis Vuitton carry-on suitcase with a broken zipper, jam-packing it like roasted peanuts in a liquor bottle, and tying it shut with one of her blouses. — Imbolo Mbue

That's your pitch to women? Let's get naked?" He snorted. "No wonder your balls are blue. — Nalini Singh

I smiled into the air the way I smiled when customers unbuckled their belts, and I made my eyes laugh as if everything were some version of a good time. — Miranda July

Far happier he, who, young and full of pride And radiant with the glory of the sun, Leaves earth before his singing time is done. All wounds of Time the graveyard flowers hide, His beauty lives, as fresh as when he died. — Kobo Abe

I'm sick of hearing people tell us how not right we are for each other. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean we're not true. — Nicole Williams

The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time. — Rand Paul