Topusko Quotes & Sayings

You have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can't trust anyone anymore, because they're all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before ... — Ned Vizzini

We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about. — Stedman Graham

Know that you are constantly surrounded by unconditional love. — Catherine Carrigan

If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction. — George Leonard

Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong. I don't think a billion buckets of science could speak to the problems raised by the Tea Party. Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that the only truths are those of science. I think the claim just made in the last sentence is true but I don't think it is a claim of science. It means that you use science where you can and you respect and try to emulate its standards. — Michael Ruse

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally. — Kaitlyn Dever

The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense, riveting, and timeless story of strong and weak men, of heroes and scoundrels and innocents too, all caught in the fateful circumstances of rebellion, plague, and war that always strip away the veneer of culture and show us for what we really are. — Thucydides

Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return. — Lewis B. Smedes

There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since. — Joseph Campbell

Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

All people should be treated equally, regardless of who they are or who they love. — Barack Obama

I imagined a quiet future in an imaginary world where nothing ever really happened but everything seemed charged with life. — John Darnielle