Sessizlik Yemini Quotes & Sayings

I want to give myself totally to Him ... I want to live no longer but for Him. — Therese Of Lisieux

It tasted of twilight and mist, moonlight and frost, emptiness and longing. — Julie Kagawa

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision. — Katherine Sophie Dreier

I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath robe. [ ... ] — Lauren Child

School didn't work for me. I hated it. — Gary Paulsen

Good writing is lean and confident. — William Zinsser

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet. — Cary Fukunaga

I despise computers in many ways. I think they're hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — Brian Eno

It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it. — Marc Anthony

On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles. — Katherine Paterson

They say be a good girl, get good grades, be popular. They know nothing about me. — Katie McGarry

As students, we took all of this for granted, like oxygen in a lecture hall, and we heaped harsh judgment on the Christian West," John recalled. "But we rarely asked, 'Compared to what?' The 'what' was always some form of utopian ideal. But utopian ideals have not fared so well. In the twentieth century, secular utopian idealists presided over the extermination of a hundred million people, killed for 'a higher good' by the apostles of Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche. History has never produced a more efficient set of butchers. — Nancy Pearcey

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame. — Charles Churchill

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear. — Jed Rubenfeld

The surface area of this root system is easily one hundred times greater than that of all the leaves put together. — Hope Jahren