Stamler Millersburg Quotes & Sayings

There are, then, three sorts of religious experiences. The ancient rites, which are essentially propitiatory. The mysteries, which purge the soul and allow us to glimpse eternity. And philosophy, which attempts to define not only the material world but to suggest practical ways to the good life, as well as attempting to synthesize (as Iamblichos does so beautifully) all true religion in a single comprehensive system. — Gore Vidal

You can take a book to the beach without worrying about sand getting in its works. You can take it to bed without being nervous about it falling to the floor should you nod off. You can spill coffee on it. You can sit on it. You can put it down on a table, open to the page you're reading, and when you pick it up a few days later it will still be exactly as you left it. You never have to be concerned about plugging a book into an outlet or having its battery die. — Nicholas Carr

Comments outnumber ideas. — Austin Kleon

But you find - surprise - that you like this capitulation from her, this helpless acceding, from the most recent embodiment of all the girls over all the years who've given you nothing, not even a curious glance. Welcome to the darker side of love. — Michael Cunningham

She is not in my books, and what kind of man would choose words that are already written over what might still be? — Erika Swyler

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest. — Christine Lahti

In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits. — Rafael Sabatini

Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events. — Elizabeth Montagu

What usually matters in your life is not the magical moment, but the quality of your daily practice. — Eric Greitens

To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are. — Umberto Eco

Soldiers and children do as they're told. Children grow out of it, but soldiers just die. — Laini Taylor

Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage. — Gary Chapman

The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes. — John Owen