Stnusa Quotes & Sayings

Neither my father nor grandfather could put dates to their stories. Not because they had forgotten or were confused; the past was simply the past. — V.S. Naipaul

The Prophet's life is an invitation to a spirituality that avoids no question and teaches us - in the course of events, trials, hardships, and our quest - that the true answers to existential questions are more often those given by the heart than by the intelligence. Deeply, simply: he who cannot love cannot understand. — Tariq Ramadan

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference. — Douglas R. Hofstadter

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. — Ben Stein

The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts. — Frederick Lenz

He's so beautiful," she said wistfully. "He's like an angel."
"Yep," I agreed flatly. "The one that fell. — Karen Marie Moning

At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put out Ben Webster? They don't sell.' And I'd say, 'Well, whether they sell or not, they're important, they should be recorded and they're what Verve stands for, so we don't have to discuss that any further. — Norman Granz

You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way. — Alexander Gustafsson

The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination. — Murad S. Shah

[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like a cry, perhaps, a cry that, somehow, inexplicably contains all the millions of words that have ever existed, anywhere, in any age. In contrast with the spoken word and its classifying function, the purpose of writing seems, rather, to be a quest for the egg, the seed, nothing more. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

Here is where they tell you, if you only believe, you, too, can live happily ever after. — Brad Barkley

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. — Sir Fulke Greville

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion. — Erwin McManus

It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back." — Carlos Alomar