Elizabeth Aston Quotes
One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.
Elizabeth Aston
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
A. S. Byatt
And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
Yehuda Amichai
It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.
Sabrina Jeffries
I think the natural is, for many people, the gateway to something supernatural or otherworldly.
Quentin S. Crisp
Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
William R. Alger
To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.
Abraham Lincoln
Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.
Vinny Guadagnino
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.
Francis Bacon
If we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
Mahatma Gandhi
When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
Carlos Santana
Santana
I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Lewis Carroll
In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God's sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil's gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell.
Tertullian
There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.
Darold Treffert
My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.
Regina Doman
Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.
Studs Terkel
I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.
Frank Turner
Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences.
Anthony Weston
The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
Thomas More
One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.
Elizabeth Aston
