Veska Vasileva Quotes & Sayings

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. — Soren Kierkegaard

Afraid of flying?" the man next to her asked, sounding displeased by the prospect. "No, just crashing and burning. — Denise Grover Swank

...philosophy does not, like exact or empirical science, bring us to know things of which we were simply ignorant, but brings us to know in a different way things which we already knew in some way; and indeed it follows from our own hypothesis; for if the species of a philosophical genus overlap, the distinction between the known and the unknown, which in a non-philosophical subject-matter involves a difference be-tween two mutually exclusive classes of truths, in a philosophical subject-matter im- plies that we may both know and not know the same thing; a paradox which disappears in the light of the notion of a scale of forms of knowledge, where coming to know means coming to know in a different and better way. — R.G. Collingwood

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning. — Carl Sagan

I tell you, mister, if there's anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it's knowing right well what buttons to push in others seeing as they're the same ones what get your own back up. — J.D. Jordan

In essence, joy is the quiet confidence that everything will work out right. The best part of being filled with joy is that it's contagious. Your joy overflows. You can't keep it to yourself. It spills over to touch other lives in such a marvelous way. People around you want to be in your company. You lift their spirits! — Dana Arcuri

Teaching a boy the discipline required for riding and training, as well as self-denial, put him on a road to the sort of self-fulfilment that he might never have dreamed about or have been able to achieve on his own. It gave him his first sense of possibility. The — Chris Froome

...he thought she was going to say those three words, and his stomach did two back flips and a somersault while balancing on a high wire. — Bart Hopkins

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. — Marshall McLuhan

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed. — Judith Jamison