"Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present."

-- Publilius Syrus

#Women Quotes #Believe Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.”

Source : "Vernon Davis ‘The NFL Playoffs’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.
“The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.”
“I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.”
“We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members of every human grouping would criticize their own past, even before criticizing others.”

Source : "Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel". Book by Israel Shahak, 1997.
“Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.”
“If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.”
“Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.”
“There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic certainty of one particular path. But enlightenment doesn't care how you get there. And if you aren't going to be thinking about it in paradise, then don't worry about it now.”

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