Samaricanin Quotes & Sayings

Truth is, I just shrug and soldier on. As kind as I am, as well-meaning and helpful as I try to be, I have no feelings finally, for good or ill. In the depths of my being, no matter what happens, I am left cold, impenetrable to remorse, to grief, to happiness, though I can pretend well enough even to the point of fooling myself. I am trying to say I am finally, terribly, unfeeling. My soul resides in a still, deep, beautiful, emotionless, calm cold pond of silence. — E.L. Doctorow

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. — Sydney Smith

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive. — Malcolm D. Lee

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it. — Ashley Montagu

A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert. — George Stillman Hillard

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses. — G.I. Gurdjieff

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success. — Jacques Maritain

Do you take anything seriously?"
"Not if I can help it. Makes life so tedious. — Leigh Bardugo

We knocked lightly on the door. A voice asked who we might be, for nobody will ever open in Italy until identity is declared. Security, even in the remotest villages, is at New York standards. — Tim Parks

Lysistrata: "Calonice, it's more than I can bear,
I am hot all over with blushes for our sex.
Men say we're slippery rogues--"

Calonice: "And aren't they right? — Aristophanes

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that. — David Rakoff

Full faith is an all-out, no-holds-barred approach to a life punctuated by actions of belief. — Tony Evans

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could. — Hope Solo

We're Norwegians. You know, the Vikings. My deadlift was 310 pounds. I mean, I was very, very strong - and I didn't take steroids. I did it all on my own. — Eleanor Mondale

Young people, your parents, with their maturity of years and experience you have not had, can provide wisdom, knowledge, and blessings to help you over life's pitfalls. You may find, that life's sweetest experiences come when you go to Mom and Dad for help. — Ezra Taft Benson