Scorpionul Romanesc Quotes & Sayings

Believers are often thought of as people who have some kind of private conviction or repudiation of something, whereas "the faithful" refers to a relationship, which was also incidentally the earlier sense of "faith" in premodern, preliberal Christianity. This is not to say, incidentally, that "faith" refers simply to external behavior as opposed to internal belief but that it refers to an act. — Talal Asad

Love is not about the perfect ingredients in a person.
It is actually about the person — Subhasis Das

I suspect that my thinking is an eclectic mix, not pure net-net because I couldn't do it anyway so you have to have a new something to hang your hat on. But the framework stays the same. — Peter Cundill

The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick. — Maureen Dowd

You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem. — Derek Jeter

Do you not quarrel, brother Heber?" says one. No, I do not. But; when a woman begins to dispute me, about nine times out of ten I get up and say, "Go it," and then go off about my business; and if ever I am so foolish as to quarrel with a woman, I ought to be whipped; for you may always calculate that they will have the last word. — Heber C. Kimball

Man cannot survive by bread and water alone, but bread and water and hate? — Glen David Gold

He could hear trhe voices, the whispers, the sighs, of these souls who were unable to let go of their burdens ... Pi understood this need to hold on. To let let go of his pain. It had become such a part of him. Who would he be without it? The thought frightened him. So he wandered the halls of the catacombs like the other souls who were half-dead and half-alive. — Clare Vanderpool

You'll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time. — Brene Brown

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course
it's our garden that is really nurturing us. — Jenny Uglow

How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail! — Alexander Pope

Signposts are our intuition asking inner wisdom to be set free. — Kami Guildner

Grunt work is my main calling, but I like to be dead when I do it. — Daniel Woodrell