Esterni Di Quotes

#1. Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.

Konrad Lorenz

#3. We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.

Evgeny Morozov

#4. Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

Winfield Scott Hancock

#5. Some people just have more of a chance than others, and some just have to take the chances that they have. I know a lot of people who were more unfortunate than Jerry Bines, who turned out much better-

David Adams Richards

#6. If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#7. Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. If you wish to possess your soul, be patient.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention.

Paula Creamer

#10. It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!

Kenneth Grahame

#11. The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#12. I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.

Rosamund Pike

#13. One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

Mena Suvari

#14. A survey reported that the majority of the seminaries [in the United States] had no classes on prayer. That really shouldn't surprise us when we consider how many local churches offer classes on gardening and the "Art of Conversation" instead of the study of God's Word and prayer.

Billy Graham

#15. I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

Benjamin Franklin