Rifka Rosenwein Quotes

#1. Although European thinkers see the Greeks as their intellectual forebears, the Greeks themselves looked toward the East for the sources of true wisdom-to Egypt, Persia, and, during the early centuries of the common era, India.

Gananath Obeyesekere

#2. There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me
- Maester Cressen

George R R Martin

#3. Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.

James Berardinelli

#4. Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity!

Thomas K. Matthews

#5. A clear vision makes the soul merry

Sunday Adelaja

#6. I have yearned always," he said softly, "for love given and returned; have spent my life in the attempt to give my love to those who were not worthy of it. Allow me this: to give my life for the sake of one who is.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

Mark Twain

#8. A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

Melina Marchetta

#9. Screw fairy tales. My life was way more interesting.

Rebecca Chastain

#10. This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won.

Rand Paul

#11. The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.

Steve Maraboli

#12. I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

Richard MacDonald

#13. Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

William Shenstone

#14. It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.

Ewan McGregor