Scylla In The Odyssey Quotes & Sayings

I fail to see where it would have been more uplifting for them to have been inside a church listening to a man urging them to 'contemplate the sufferings of our Lord,' which is just another way of punishing one's self for nothing. It is very much better for them to climb the rocks in their bare clean feet and meet Him face to face in their search for the eternal in beauty. — Zora Neale Hurston

I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer. — Erin Wasson

The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth. — Arnold Gesell

I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word. — Alexandre Dumas

No one said anything; they didn't need to. That's what it's like between best friends. Sometimes you just know what each other's thinking. You don't always have to say it. — Rose Impey

Why do women always have to go over and over a situation until it becomes a problem? — Jojo Moyes

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different. — Richard J. Foster

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French. — Eva Green

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts. — Jean Vanier

If there is a single fundamental underpinning in the intellectual tradition of Western scientific thought, it is arguably that there exists an unbridgeable divide between the world of mind and the world of matter, between the realm of the material (which is definitely real) and the realm of the immaterial (which, according to the conventions of science, is likely illusory). — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better. — Geddy Lee

Whatever happened is water under the bridge. Burn the damn bridge and forget the past, he whispered. — Carolyn Brown

Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise. — Dada Bhagwan