Sakuraoka Sei Quotes & Sayings

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us. — Charles Stanley

The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows. — Steven Wright

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing. — Eve Ensler

Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you're desperate for. — Laura Miller

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of
unlimited life at a single moment. — Boethius

Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years old which was as good as ever. Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever? It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect. — Henry David Thoreau

While those who continuously get themselves the supply of growth, smile through life. — Sunday Adelaja

The human soul is very much older than the human mind. — Konrad Lorenz

Architecture is (in part) "the art of leaving out irrelevant details". Leaving out details, sadly, often derails into religiously ignoring details. The key word, however, is 'irrelevant': as the Chinese proverb says: people stumble over molehills, not over mountains. An architect consciously leaves out details that he or she has decided are irrelevant to the decisions to be made. — Gerben Wierda

Don't be an asshole. Just because you have one, it doesn't mean it's okay to act like it. — Christian Simamora

85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter. — Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

Application, resignation, and chance had gone into the writing; I saw, however, that Daneri's real work lay not in the poetry but in his invention of reasons why the poetry should be admired. Of course, this second phase of his effort modified the writing in his eyes, though not in the eyes of others. — Jorge Luis Borges

I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes. — Jack Whyte