Velemirovich Quotes & Sayings

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover. — James Dean

I belong deeply to myself. — Warsan Shire

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference. — Paul Davies

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country. — Gretchen Wilson

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation. — Tran Duc Luong

There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music. — Rachel Cusk

How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them. — Theodore Dalrymple

A good perfumer was part alchemist, part artist, and part wizard. — Lisa Kleypas

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature. — Nick Harkaway

Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view. — Carlo Rovelli

A primordial instinct going back to humanity's tribal past makes us see difference as a threat. That instinct is massively dysfunctional in an age in which our several destinies are interlinked. Oddly enough, it is the market -- the least overtly spiritual of concepts -- that delivers a profoundly spiritual message: that it is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse. When difference leads to war, both sides lose. When it leads to mutual enrichment, both sides gain. — Jonathan Sacks

You've crossed into Death, into the other side, and returned. Do you think something like that doesn't leave a mark on the soul? — Richelle Mead