Aatu Jamsen Quotes & Sayings

The boasts of men about their conquests would seem hollow since it's the vulnerability of women that fetches them their favors.. — BS Murthy

I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room. — Laura Esquivel

There's beauty in everything, but not everyone is able to feel it. — Anis Mansour

If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success. — Paulo Coelho

Mortal fear is the ghetto of the human soul, to be free of it something like the psychic equivalent of inheriting a hundred million dollars. — Ben Fountain

I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive. — Guy Sajer

I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. — Markus Zusak

Ah, dear Reader, is there a married man living who hasn't purged his drawers and closets of premarital memorabilia, only to have one more incriminating relic from yester-life rear its lovely head? Kristy contends that old flames never die, not completely. They smolder for years in hidden places. They flare up again just when you think you're over them. They can burn you if you don't deal with them. Such is the price I've had to pay for not rooting out the evidence of my life B.C. (Before Contentment). Or, perhaps, for having planted it too well.
But that, you see, is no longer an issue. Shall I tell you the crux of this argument? A man with a past can be forgiven. A man without one cannot be trusted. If there were no pictures in my drawer for Kirsty to uncover, I would have had to produce some. — Ted Gargiulo

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To translate knowledge and information into experience: that seems to be the function of literature and art. — Joseph Campbell

The happy do not believe in miracles. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom. — Caspar Weinberger

The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil. — Mahatma Gandhi