Tellinis Quotes & Sayings

Myself: But wasn't the decision a right one? Am I not here? What more could Feeling have achieved than was brought about by Reason? — Robertson Davies

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts. — James Bryant Conant

Here the whole world (stars, water, air,
And field, and forest, as they were
Reflected in a single mind)
Like cast off clothes was left behind
In ashes, yet with hopes that she,
Re-born from holy poverty,
In lenten lands, hereafter may
Resume them on her Easter Day.
(Epitaph for Joy Davidman) — C.S. Lewis

You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle. And it's not just mine. Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they're too busy with their own. The beautiful ones. The popular ones. The guys that pick on you. Everyone. If you could hear what they were feeling. The loneliness. The confusion. It looks quiet down there. It's not. It's deafening. — Joss Whedon

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness. — R.C. Sproul

Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle. — David Bazan

The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings. — Ben Mendelsohn