Tazikis Mediterranean Quotes & Sayings

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness. — Leigh Hunt

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position. — Alan Dershowitz

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear. — Clarence Darrow

You have to be ready for anything. It's a good reminder about democracy. Voters can tell you to carry on, or chuck you out. You've got to be ready for both. — David Cameron

In truth, there is no such thing as an "intuitive boundary" of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice. — Istvan Aranyosi

Normal is a word invented by boring people to make them feel better about being boring. — Lauren Oliver

The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks". — Paul C. Nagel

All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived. — Linda Lee Cadwell

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique ... If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born.
Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78 — Martin Buber

Just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless they are drawn firmly together by the crown of prayer. This endless, unstirring calm of prayer ... can neither be achieved nor consummated without these virtues. And likewise virtues are the prerequisite foundation of prayer and cannot be effected without it. — John Cassian

I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part Negro, might be part Jew, part Muslim, part Irish. So I can't afford to be supercilious about any group of people because I may be that people. — James A. Michener

Dictators and tyrants are the ones who lead their people over a cliff. — David Runciman

For bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than one instance; so there can be numerically distinct particulars sharing the same universals; so the principle of identity of indiscernibles is false. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock. — Ann Wilson