Sklonasamsung Quotes & Sayings

Yet the Vedas do not merely ask us to accept such conclusions. They even tell us that it is better to doubt them until we ourselves actually find them to be true. Rather the Vedas present their teachings as models of lines of examination for us to adapt into the circumstances of our own lives. — Jagadish Chandra Chatterji

A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually. — Jean Vanier

We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality. — Max Nordau

All human activity is prompted by desire. — Bertrand Russell

He didn't say it; he had to keep his desperation from bursting through the thin layer of dignity it had been wrapped in throughout the interview. Clark smiled and patted him on the arm. — Imbolo Mbue

Massachusetts's poor laws required that boys be taught to write and girls to read.7 — Jill Lepore

The further I've gotten into the Internet, the more I've become convinced that we've explored only a tiny corner of what it can mean and what we can feel there. — Marshall Herskovitz

When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a time" so often contain.
I tried to protect Shay from that darkness. But there was no way to shield her from the truth: Life is not a fairy tale. — Laura J. Burns

For love is like a journey in mountainous country, up through the clouds, and down into the shadows to an unknown destination. — Ford Madox Ford

We don't make music - it makes us. — David Byrne

Life is so unlike theory. — Anthony Trollope

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal. — Camille Paglia

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it. — Max Hastings

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows. — Agatha Christie