Wolinetz Quotes & Sayings

Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move. — Soren Kierkegaard

I'm not telling you in order to hear it back," I said. "I'm letting you know how I feel, so that you don't have to wonder. I don't need to know how you feel, or care if you love me right now. I just thought you and your delicate ego might want to know. — Alessandra Torre

All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure. — Swami Vivekananda

When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here. — Andrea Hirata

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. — Virginia Woolf

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. — Lyman Bryson

In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time. — Ludivine Sagnier

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying. — Yann Martel

I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly — Harry Turtledove