Saznali Na Quotes & Sayings

Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross. — John Stott

The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the side of the body nervously affected, is in itself evidence that in this case the ancient surgeon was already beginning observations on the localization of functions in the brain. — James Henry Breasted

Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes sick people feel better and old men throw away their sticks and dance." Tshikona "brings peace to the countryside ... " It is an example of the production of the maximum of available human energy in a situation that generates the highest degree of individuality in the largest possible community of individuals. — John Blacking

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness. — Brian Reynolds Myers

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. — Peter Stuyvesant

I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me. — Jesse Eisenberg

Actors come in, and they have their own take on things, and you have to adjust on the fly to make sure everything still works structurally and dramatically. — John Requa

Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, where love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions came later and the answers wouldn't matter much measured up against the love. — Cynthia Voigt

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God. — Victor Hugo

Success isn't always about triumph. It's about carrying on, continuing the battle. Even the fight can't be won. — Shannon Messenger

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season. — Marcus Aurelius