Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Nash

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Jostein Gaarder

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Radhanath Swami

Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

Thomas Aquinas

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Thomas Aquinas

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Thomas Aquinas

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Thomas Aquinas

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Thomas Aquinas

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Thomas Aquinas

Beware of the person of one book.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Sarah Dessen

I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.

William Powell

I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

William Carey

There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.

Wilhelm Wundt

Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.

William Jones

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.

Winston Churchill

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.

Allen Ginsberg

This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.