Stendhal Protagonist Quotes & Sayings

To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls. — Pafnuty Chebyshev

His scar burned, but he was master of the pain; he felt it, yet was apart from it. — J.K. Rowling

Because there is no power in the world that can take away the pain until it is ready to leave. — Aimee Carter

In Spirit, there is no such thing as indifference. — S. Kelley Harrell

As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them. — Donald Norman

Always remember, difficult situations are thrust upon those who have the power to influence events. — T.A. Uner

I started reading all these men's magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you're supposed to wear, what you're supposed to have, things you're supposed to say, and all the exercises you're supposed to do. — Ryan Gosling

He wondered how his nana always found beautiful where he never even thought to look. — Matt De La Pena

Some people come into your life, not to stay, but to bring you to the path you were meant to be on. Ashe — Serena Pettus

Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life. — John Templeton

It was like a tear in the fabric of my sleep. — Sebastian Japrisot

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country. — George Papandreou

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. — Pythagoras

So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another ... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction. — Stanley Cavell

You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes lifted, meeting Chauncey's. "Half fallen angel." Chauncey's tutor's voice drifted up from the recesses of his mind, reading passages from the Bible, telling of a deviant race created when angels cast from heaven mated with mortal women. A fearsome and powerful race. A chill that wasn't entirely revulsion crept through Chauncey. "Who are you? — Becca Fitzpatrick