Viktorovnaj5 Quotes & Sayings

The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing. — C.S. Lewis

I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come in as the author and say, "Hey, okay. I'm interrupting the narrator here. I'm Bret Easton Ellis, and I'm the author." — Bret Easton Ellis

I have seldom written poetry unless I was rather out of health. — A.E. Housman

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections. — Shirin Ebadi

The old man began to lose heart at this endless return of chains, this rebirth of shackles, this proliferation of suffering, which the more resigned began to accept as proof of the uselessness of all revolt (171-172). — Alejo Carpentier

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce ... — Jacqueline Novogratz

I've heard people say that the more you like someone, the more you think they are beautiful even if you didn't think so in the beginning. — Jenny Han

In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who has watched children, or adults, at play will recognize that there is no contradiction between play and seriousness, and that some forms of play induce a measure of grave concentration not so readily called forth by work. — Richard Hofstadter

You do not own me. I do not own you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves. — David Low

I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know. — Julie Berry