Vlkava Quotes & Sayings

In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

There is a talk that every father has with his son in which he brings the child to understand that there are ways we must act, things we must say, but inside, we are still us, we are family. — Adam Johnson

The rights essential to happiness ... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. — Ferdinand Lassalle

You will never find it," his ghost says. "What?" "What you are looking for. You want to go back to the start. You want to go back to where you began. You want to find the happiness you once had. But you can never get there, because even if you somehow found it, you yourself would be different. You would have changed, from your journey alone, from the passing of time, if nothing else. You can never make it back to where you began, you can only ever climb another turn of the spiral stair. Forever. — Marcus Sedgwick

Likewise, Humanities Computing is the creative result of failure on the part of the manufacturers of early computers to produce operational machines in time to be used during the Second World War (or, one can argue, of failure on the part of the allied forces to make the war last longer). — Melissa Terras

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me. — Charlize Theron

In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself. — Adrienne Rich

When she had discovered that I hungered to learn, she commenced to shovel knowledge my way as vigorously as she spaded the cowpats into her beloved flower beds. — Geraldine Brooks

I gain weight and lose it again in inevitable cycles. — Gerard Depardieu

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear. — Menachem Begin

I know the coaches definitely trust me and my ability to throw the football. — Russell Wilson

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. — Frank Zappa

When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King. — Jack LaLanne

Tomorrow," she said, "we try again. We fail again. We do better. — Gabrielle Zevin