Rusalka Metropolitan Quotes

#1. Joy is a practice, not an involuntary state.

Bryant McGill

#2. That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.

Ryan Guzman

#3. There was no way to save me from life.

Shelly Crane

#4. The parental relationship sits outside the
the logic of meritocracy and is the closest humans come to grace.

David Brooks

#5. I asked her whether, like Marguerite de Navarre, she had their hearts embalmed and hung at her girdle. She told me she didn't, because none of them had had any hearts at all.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Thinking about the weaknesses or faults of others is forbidden, whether they are present or not. The Prophet said, There is a tree in Paradise reserved for one whose own faults preoccupied him from considering the faults of others.

Hamza Yusuf

#7. Until you begin to sow yourself, ability, gifts, talent into that land God has called you into, prosperity will then be yours

Sunday Adelaja

#8. When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.

Yasmin Mogahed

#9. She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.

George Eliot

#10. That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.

Damon Galgut

#11. They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

David Davis

#12. It may be those who do most, dream most.

Stephen Leacock

#13. thought that was the whole idea of the German Reformation. To abolish priestly intercession.

Philip Kerr

#14. No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

Stanley Kubrick