Whiggish Principles Quotes & Sayings

Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles ... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.. — Milan Kundera

The sphere of consciousness shrinks in action; no one who acts can lay claim to the universal, for to act is to cling to the properties of being at the expense of being itself, to a form of reality to reality's detriment. — Emil M. Cioran

I made up adventures and divesed a life for myself so as to live, at least somehow, a little. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what I think is discovered as that longish sentence at the end of the poem comes to its conclusion. But here I am interpreting my own poem, which is kind of like making out with one's own high school yearbook photo. — Matthew Zapruder

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself. — Haruki Murakami

The book is intended to help believing Christians "who today have been made insecure by scientific research and critical discussion, so that they may hold fast to faith in the person of Jesus Christ as the bringer of salvation and Savior of the world — Pope Benedict XVI

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me. — Dwight L. Moody

I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative. — Steve Ballmer

Surely there's no need to abandon one's reason simply because one is in Ireland. — J.G. Farrell

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it. — Dallas Willard

The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it. — Michael Howard

Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon. — Lauren Fleshman