Silkes Cookies Quotes & Sayings

Live bravely in the time you have and smile at the void. — Scott Snyder

How dangerous can false reasoning prove! — Sophocles

Lacy was a pleasurable fight. It wasn't my hardest fight because I won every single minute of every single round. — Joe Calzaghe

More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God: That's why this all happened."

In the process [the process of his 50 year study of the Russian Revolution] I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have contributed eight volumes toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God, that's why this has happened. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you. — Soren Kierkegaard

...If we can achieve this, then one day whole rooms, buildings, perhaps even bridges may generate their own energy, funnel it to where it is needed, detect damage, and self-heal. If this seems like science fiction, bear in mind that it is only what living materials do already. — Mark Miodownik

To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants. — Helen Foster Snow

When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more. — Claude Monet

She thought she could see the lines on his forehead even in this darkness, she thought she could hear his heart beat with this colossal pain that had descended upon them all. She did not pity herself, or them, or wonder what they had done to deserve all of this, or even think that perhaps they were all paying their dues for some sin they had committed in a previous life. This was life, such as it was, and it had to be borne, it had to be lived. — Indu Sundaresan