Salmanssa Quotes & Sayings

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go. — Robert Hughes

Thought must always contain an element of desire, but there is none in dreaming. The dream, which is wholly spontaneous, adopts and preserves, even in our utmost flights of fancy, the pattern of our spirit; nothing comes more truly from the very depths of the soul than those unconsidered and uncontrolled aspirations to the splendours of destiny. It is in these, much more than in our reasoned thoughts, that a man's true nature is to be found. Our imaginings are what most resemble us. Each of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in his own way. — Victor Hugo

By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective. — Karen Armstrong

Renunciation simply means a state of un-attachment. A big house and a new car should be enjoyed to their fullest so long as we accept them as things that can and will go away. We never really own anything; we hold title, rent, lease, use, and borrow things during our short visit here. Impermanence is just another name for perfection. — William Reed

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love. — Myrtle Reed

Your inner being guard, and keep it free. — Lao-Tzu

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible, — Arthur Conan Doyle

What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones? — Michel Faber

I don't care if I get $50m to do a film. — Abel Ferrara

Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time. — Jack Germond