Ssu Ma Chien Quotes & Sayings

Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Is there any friendship, without forgiveness? — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. — Maria Mitchell

Nobody ever listens. People will tell you whatever they want to hear themselves say. Nobody cares if you feel better, just so long as they do. — David Elliott

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth — Leo Tolstoy

Poetry is the Path on the Rainbow by which the soul climbs; it lays hold on the Friend of the Soul of Man. Such exalted states are held to be protective and curative. Medicine men sing for their patients, and, in times of war, wives gather around the Chief's woman and sing for the success of their warriors. "Calling on Zeus by the names of Victory" as Euripides puts it. — Carl Sandburg

The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal. — Swami Vivekananda

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized ... I'm just slutty. Where's my parade? — Margaret Cho

The marine corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swabjockies, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because those candyasses don't know how to be miserable.
The artist committing himself to his calling has to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not, he will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. The artist must be like that marine: he has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier, or swabbie, or desk jockey, because this is war, baby, and war is hell. — Steven Pressfield

Only he who has the power to punish can pardon. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. — William Shakespeare

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. — Sinclair Lewis