Shimerda Quotes & Sayings

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination. — John Cassavetes

With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families. — Allegra Huston

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man. — Bernard Iddings Bell

What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love. — Rajneesh

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion. — Shiv Khera

The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day. — Steven Weinberg

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed. — Tom Sizemore

At nine o'clock Mr. Shimerda lighted one of our lanterns and put on his overcoat and fur collar. He stood in the little entry hall, the lantern and his fur cap under his arm, shaking hands with us. When he took grandmother's hand, he bent over it as he always did, and said slowly, 'Good woman!' He made the sign of the cross over me, put on his cap and went off in the dark. As we turned back to the sitting-room, grandfather looked at me searchingly. 'The prayers of all good people are good,' he said quietly. — Willa Cather

...what has made it possible for us to remain ourselves in spite of so many wars, invasions and occupations, is our spiritual, not our material, strength--our poetry, and not out technology; our religion, and not our factories. — Ryszard Kapuscinski