Surgit Quotes & Sayings

If you want to do something very praiseworthy and very saintly, make a child happy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. — Toni Morrison

Jan shook his head, 'No. You have the most beautiful, powerful voice that any of us are ever hearing,' he said. 'How could we leave you alone? It would be against the law. I would have to telephone Interpol. — Lucy Robinson

If God told you exactly what it was you were to do, you would be happy doing it no matter what it was. What you're doing is what God wants you to do. Be happy. — Werner Erhard

On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate you no fortress will save you ... — Niccolo Machiavelli

Insight is the first condition of Art. — George Henry Lewes

Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.] — Lucretius

if they are bearded, they are after 117 CE. This — Mary Beard

I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters; I think that gives exactly what I want; humanity, humor, depth. The idea is that the caves shall connect, & each comes to daylight at the present moment. — Virginia Woolf

To envision what will be, you must remove yourself from the constant concern for what already is. — Scott Belsky