Skamba Lietuva Quotes & Sayings

The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul. — C. G. Jung

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears. — John Muir

I am, sir. It is my way - it always was my way, by instinct - ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness. — Charlotte Bronte

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide. — Martin Van Creveld

How you choose to lose yourself matters. Trust me, it's all in the 'how'. It matters a lot. — Anne Sexton

What remains mysterious, or even enigmatic are those two words "nothing more," "pas davantage" in French. — Javier Marias

Love is the essence of life. Without love, life does not make any sense. — Debasish Mridha

Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage. — Josephine Bakhita

During our visit, we noticed she was mixing up words. She started referring to Muslims as Mormons. After 9/11, she told Jon and me how it was important for America to stop the radical Mormons because they had perpetrated the attacks on the Twin Towers.
There was no way we could convince her of the difference. We'd just smile and not. That's right, Grandma, all the Mormons got together on September 11th and ran their bicycles into the Twin Towers! — Mollie Gross

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Smiling now, Michael Dawn sat on his rooftop, gazing at the stars above him, just like men had done for thousands of years. Out there lay secrets and mysteries that an eternity could never unravel, worlds he could only imagine. Yet looking at them then, it all seemed so surreal. As if the only purpose the stars had in this world was to shine their tiny points of light down on him that evening. To give him something beautiful and breathtaking to admire. Maybe that was their only purpose. Maybe trying to get more out of them, trying to travel among them and shed light on things that were better left unexposed, had been the trouble all along. — John A. Ashley

The Bible does not say anything about communism, OK? The Bible has a whole lot to say about sex. It has a whole lot to say about homosexuality. And so you can't compare the two and say these are - these are the same. That's just ludicrous. It's just - it's not the same. — Franklin Graham

I have lived behind walls that have made me alone — Karen Marie Moning

I really loved Kiyoyori-in the way you people love each other, and we, not so much. I had never felt that before. I should be able to pass away without regret, as easily as the leaf falls from the tree in autumn, but the idea of never seeing him again, in whatever form, fills me with sorrow. I cling to life for his sake. This is what love does to you Shikanoko. See how the false wolf grows more real every day, because it has become attached to you. It shivers at your approach and wags its tail at the sound of your voice. It has made you its master, it lives for your affection. But, as your saints teach and we have always known, attachment enslaves you. Only those free from it see the world as it really is and have power over themselves and all things. — Lian Hearn

Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term ... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do. — Bill Maris