Sosu Campus Quotes & Sayings

The only person he cared about was the one he thought he could mould her into. — Emma Holly

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung. — Henry Ward Beecher

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange. — Mark E. Smith

You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems. — Paul Tudor Jones

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works. — Andrew Pyper

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone — John Updike

When an Angel whispers in your ear, it is your heart that hears thy message. — Molly Friedenfeld

Syrian monk, Isaac of Niniveh: Many are avidly seeking but they alone find who remain in continual silence. ... Every man who delights in a multitude of words, even though he says admirable things, is empty within. If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence like the sunlight will illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance. Silence will unite you to God himself. ... More than all things love silence: it brings you a fruit that tongue cannot describe. In the beginning we have to force ourselves to be silent. But then there is born something that draws us to silence. May God give you an experience of this "something" that is born of silence. If only you practice this, untold light will dawn on you in consequence ... after a while a certain sweetness is born in the heart of this exercise and the body is drawn almost by force to remain in silence. — Thomas Merton

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal. — Jack Kirby

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself. — Anthony Horowitz

Among the first questions a native mother asks her child in the morning is: what did you dream? When I heard this for the first time I felt ashamed because I used to ask my children only: Did you do your mathematics homework? Do you have your lunch? The experiences of other cultures may not be immediately helpful to us, but they do at least make us aware of the deficits of our own culture ... I want to remind us of the buried mysticism of childhood. There are for many of us - I almost want to say for every one of us - moments of heightened experience in childhood in which we are grasped by a remarkable, seemingly unshakable certainty. Mystics of the various ages have called upon this buried experience. — Dorothee Solle

If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you're not finished with. — Leonore Fleischer