"It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce."

-- Criss Jami

#Humble Quotes #Insecure Quotes #Order Quotes

“Both of you [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] are giants, dare I say nephilim [giants; see Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33], in your world.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
“I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.”
“I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one of those days, I'll just be like. 'I'm not going to let this be a bad day,' and I'll do everything I can to turn it around.”
“The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.47, Da Capo Press
“I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.”
“Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.”
“We come to this book because something is missing in our souls. This book will take you through the steps that you stumbled over in all your other attempts. And it will bring more than you asked for.”

Source : Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.13
“I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.”

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