Rodnick Quotes & Sayings

Rest assured, dear friend, that many noteworthy and great sciences and arts have been discovered through the understanding and subtlety of women, both in cognitive speculation, demonstrated in writing, and in the arts, manifested in manual works of labor. I will give you plenty of examples. Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies 1405 — Elizabeth Gilbert

Practically from birth - or so it seemed to him - he had been aware that the elegant, filigreed, eminently reasonable world around him was destined to collapse under its own weight, like some elaborate architectural folly; the obvious response, to any sensible observer, was to have as little to do with such a world as possible. — John Wray

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo. — J.K. Rowling

If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people
things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness. — Lawrence G. Lovasik

But this kind of love can't survive. Love's a luxury. — Julianna Baggott

Kindness is always more powerful than rightness, because rightness is only right but kindness is always right but with kindness. — Debasish Mridha

The spirit of Buddhism is, more than anything, about valuing harmony and unity, in which others are respected and embraced rather than denounced. This has been the way of Buddhism since the beginning, and this is true Buddhism. — Shinjo Ito

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way. — Johannes Tauler

When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it for you. I'll give you fifty dollars. I didn't know nothing about papers, and business, and I sold it outright. — Louis Armstrong

It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it. — Bashar Al-Assad

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything. — Seann William Scott

Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the worst of all is that those who are being treated ill cannot accept their sufferings in proof of their testimony, nor can the people reverence the athletes as in the army of martyrs, because the name of Christians is applied to the persecutors. The one charge which is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers. — Saint Basil

It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness. — Alexander Herzen

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to. — Moira Young