Siasahau Quotes & Sayings

It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it. — Elizabeth Goudge

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights. — Yo-Yo Ma

Stories are powerful because they speak to both our reason and to our emotion. — Jim Korkis

That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things. — Frithjof Schuon

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it. — Terry Eagleton

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money. — Andrew Dominik

I haven't changed, Willie," Robert said to the wall. "No, but you ain't the same neither," she replied. — Yaa Gyasi

Sailing is a big outlet for me. It's one of the key things I've been able to do by commingling science with sailing and my love of the sea. Also, I have several motorcycles, and I like to go on motorcycle trips. — Craig Venter

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there. — Edward Young

You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness; in this way, and in no other, do you reach anthropological insight. — Martin Buber