Mandorla Quotes

#1. The message is unmistakable; our own healing proceeds from that overlap of what we call good and evil, light and dark. It is not that the light element alone does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise. This middle place is a mandorla.

Robert A. Johnson

#2. 'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's just my take on it.

Michael Hirst

#3. [F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation ...

Nikolai Gogol

#4. "You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

Ayn Rand

#5. It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

Roald Dahl

#6. We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

Jon Porter

#7. The greatest things are freely given.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Long hours
trail in their purple
and long years are lost
in just this moment
while our souls are near,
our mouths separate.

Hilda Doolittle

#9. And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

Margaret Spellings

#10. I'm not going to be raped. I'm not going to be murdered. I'm going to bring him to justice so this never happens to anyone else. I'm not going to think like a victim. I'm going to think like a winner. Because that's what I am. I'm Ruthless, by God, and I need to act like it.

Carolyn Lee Adams

#11. Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?

Derek Webb

#12. It was an aspiring neighbourhood that retained a faint edge of slum, typical of Shanghai. Pensioners in Mao-era padded jackets would sit on doorsteps playing mah-jong, oblivious to the Prada-clad girls sweeping past on their way to work.

Hyeonseo Lee