Valenciana Paella Quotes & Sayings

I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of a majestic beech: "Statues are hewn by fools like me: only God could make this tree." The Taoists looked at the inside of the tree. They saw God present, not as the super-sculptor, but as the primal force from which the tree drew its being and its specific form. Becoming aware of this divine origin was for them "great knowledge," to be distinguished from the "small knowledge" of our petty, every-day existence. — John Wijngaards

To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice? — Leonardo DiCaprio

God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream of this idealized community demand that it be fulfilled by God, by others, and by themselves. They enter the community of Christians with their demands, set up their own law, and judge one another and even God accordingly. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful. — Gary Coleman

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all. — Jerry Saltz

You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem. — George W. Bush

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law. — Claude Chabrol

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there. — Arundhati Roy

But this is life, and when bad things come to us, there isn't much choice. You survive them or you don't. — Greer Macallister

It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so? — Catherynne M Valente

The human spirit carries a torch called hope. — Toni Sorenson