Serapion Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business. — Vicki Lawrence

Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother, — Rudyard Kipling

Is he right, about my creating excitement where I can? Even being melodramatic?

You went on a half-baked vengeance quest against Paul using a totally untested experimental device, I think. He might possibly have a point. — Claudia Gray

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. — Northrop Frye

Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets. — Robert Reich

New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world. — Robert Wilson

One day is not enough to watch a tree, one life is not enough to love a tree.
I wonder when i see a new leaf, it was like a new born baby come and meet the world; I feel great to see a plant bearing fruits, it was like a mother carrying her child during her pregnancy period — Karthikeyan V

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. — David Korten

It was not enough. It was too much. It was everything. — Jill Shalvis

One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy's information, political postures - dozens, literally dozens of factors. — Joe Haldeman

The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived. — Spencer Johnson

None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a school, the danger of goose-stepping, uniformed ranks. But the Serapion Brethren have already, it seems to me, outgrown this danger. Each of them has his own individuality and his own handwriting. The common thing they have derived from the studio is the art of writing with ninety-proof ink, the art of eliminating everything that is superfluous, which is, perhaps, more difficult than writing. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Lord, however, transferred to His own flesh not sin, as the poison of the serpent, but He did transfer to it death, that the penalty without the fault might transpire in the likeness of sinful flesh, whence, in the sinful flesh, both the fault might be removed and the penalty. — Bishop Serapion

We cannot leave our children disconnected from opportunities that are designed specially for them. — Sharad Vivek Sagar