Smets Kine Quotes & Sayings

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better. — David Mitchell

The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield. — Van Day Truex

Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not be remembered. — Guy Sajer

Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy scrutiny and debate. The absence of such argument also leads us to exaggerate the extent to which other people believe the way we do. — Thomas Gilovich

Not all are called to the way of the sword or the gun or the ship, but all serve ka. — Stephen King

Create the job, we wish to have. — Lailah Gifty Akita

(Spring is the earth forgiving itself.) — Allan Gurganus

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible. — Orhan Pamuk

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature. — Umberto Eco

In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is a nearly inescapable habit of mind, for despite all the customary pretense that 'man' and 'humanity' are terms which apply equally to both sexes, the fact is hardly obscured that in practice, general application favors the male far more often than the female as referent, or even sole referent, for such designations. — Kate Millett