On January 31, 1944, I was brought to the Kremlin. There I was cut to pieces and the bloodied parts of my soul were scattered for shame and slaughter in all the gatherings. Everything that was evil, unkind, vengeful, trampled and defiled me. I held on for a year and fell. My heart could not bear the burden of lies and evil.
I was born in 1894, which I still regret. I should have been born in 1904. I would be ten years younger now.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
The entire history of relations between Moscow and Ukraine for more than 250 years, since the union of these two states, is a systematic, reckless, shameless, brazen destruction of the Ukrainian nation by all means, even to the point of erasing every trace of it, so that not even its name remains.
The stone that was rolled before Christ’s tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher’s stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Allowing then that a life of religion were a life of misery; that a life of wickedness were a life of happiness; and, that a man were assured of enjoying that happiness for the term of threescore years…
—John Wesley
“There will be bear markets about twice every 10 years and recessions twice every 10-12 years but nobody has been able to predict them reliably.
So the best thing to do is buy when shares are thoroughly depressed and that means when other people are selling.”
— John Templeton
“Buying a cyclical after several years of record earnings and when the P/E ratio has hit a low point is a proven method for losing half of your money in a short period of time.”
“If the Fed Chairman were to whisper to me what his monetary policy was going to be over the next two years, it wouldn’t change one thing I do.”
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
—Charles Dickens
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
“The teachings of the New Testament are as sound and true today as they were eighteen hundred years ago.”
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
—Pablo Picasso
I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
—Stephen Hawking
After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
—Michelangelo
The stone that was rolled before Christ’s tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher’s stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
—Henry Ford
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
—Charles Dickens
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
—Henry Ford
When I read a good book I wish that life were 3000 years long.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
—Nikolai Gogol
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
—Sigmund Freud
He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
If the whole world depends on today’s youth, I can’t see the world lasting another 100 years.
—Socrates
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
Allowing then that a life of religion were a life of misery; that a life of wickedness were a life of happiness; and, that a man were assured of enjoying that happiness for the term of threescore years…
—John Wesley
The cross covers, the blood cleanses, and His eternal love will keep that which we have committed unto Him, until that day. Is not this a good word with which to end the year?
—Amy Carmichael
Are you sure of living threescore years? Are you sure of living one year, one month, one week, one day? O make haste to live! Surely the man that may die tonight should live today.
—John Wesley
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
—Mark Twain
Jesus walked forth, alive!
I believe that so completely that I believe it all the time. This is not an Easter “thing” that I try to believe once a year. I believe it so fully & so completely that it is a part of my being, every moment of every day.
—AW Tozer