Ghika Quotes

#1. My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.

Jacob Rothschild

#2. Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

G. C. Berkouwer

#3. Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends.

Caroline B. Cooney

#4. [A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose.

Vincent De Paul

#5. in a world full of trends, i want to remain a classic

Iman

#6. I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

Stephen Covey

#7. (On Angelica in 'Satisfied')

Oof. Tryin' to out-Eponine Eponine up in this piece.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#8. Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of God. A place like hell is thus inconceivable.

Jacques Ellul

#9. I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism."

Terry Tempest Williams

#10. The activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#11. I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

Jack Nicholson

#12. They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.

Michael York

#13. The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

Havelock Ellis

#14. Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

Richard Strauss

#15. Salvation comes through repetition. This I can do because I have done it before - it's half prayer, half truth, a whisper in a hurricane of self-doubt.

Kevin Hazzard

#16. I turned round and Jeeves shied like a startled mustang.

P.G. Wodehouse