Trunchi De Con Quotes & Sayings

If people don't recognize such limits, God will make them realize His own way — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid. — Martin Luther

I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets a bit facile where they think: "Let's get the next best-seller and see if we can turn it into a film." — Colin Firth

All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it. — Dalai Lama

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based. — Mel Gibson

When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins. — Johnny Hunt

Killing an enemy with teeth and bare hands is emotionally far more demanding than pulling a trigger or pressing a button. In inventing tools and weapons, in contriving civilization, we have disinhibited the controls - sometimes thoughtlessly and inadvertently, but sometimes with cool premeditation. If the beasts who are our nearest relatives engaged recklessly in ... mass murder they would have rendered themselves extinct. If our non-human ancestors did it, we would not be here. — Carl Sagan

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts. — Frank Herbert

There are such moments in life: one unexpectedly discovers that perfection exists, that it, too, is a tiny sphere traveling in time, empty, transparent, luminous, and which sometimes (rarely) comes in our direction and encircles us for a few brief moments before traveling on to other parts and other people. — Jose Saramago