Turovsky Leon Quotes & Sayings

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work. — Myles Munroe

God is not dead but missing in action, and we are destined to wander again for more millennia than there are undiscovered stars. — Erica Jong

If you expect more from yourself than from others, you are saying that you are better than others and, therefore, must perform at a superior level. I do not mean that you should not set goals for yourself. Rather, the question is, how do you react if you cannot meet these goals? Honestly admitting that you may have not done your best is not judgement. It is judgement when you draw a conclusion about yourself based on your ideas about failure.
Honesty involves taking responsibility; judgment has to do with blame. To view yourself as bad or a failure because you did not accomplish what you set out to do is judgment. To state clearly and simply that you did not accomplish your plan is taking responsibility. — Judith Hanson Lasater

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain. — Helen Mirren

Offal and offcuts such as head and feet can be picked up for next to nothing, and eating them helps to avoid waste. — Tristram Stuart

Theology is
or should be
a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open yourself to a poem with a quiet, receptive mind, in the same way you might listen to a difficult piece of music ... If you seize upon a poem and try to extort its meaning before you are ready, it remains opaque. If you bring your own personal agenda to bear upon it, the poem will close upon itself like a clam, because you have denied its unique and separate identity, its inviolate holiness. — Karen Armstrong

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration. — William S. Burroughs

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration. — Robin McKinley

...I consider a room without reading to be a hell without consolation, a gibbet without relief, a prison without light, a tomb without a vent, a ditch swarming with worms, a suffocating trap.... — Peter Cellensis

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation's educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war. — Lewis H. Lapham

Please report to Supreme Commander Leo for your superfun list of chores! — Rick Riordan

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues. — Kristin Davis

I think you can only make statements like 'She was pathological' if you are absolutely sure of your own sanity, which I consider a morally unacceptable position. — Jacqueline Rose

The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead — Frank Herbert

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life. — Lizette Woodworth Reese