Ahmatova Quotes & Sayings

The bulletproof vest
'bullet resistant,' technically
is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death ... ' Other cops wrote their blood type. — Edward Conlon

If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth. — Edith Wharton

A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable. — Watchman Nee

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then. — Douglas Booth

To understand is to invent. — Jean Piaget

A fake is a copy, a duplicate, a facsimile of an original. The professional coach is authentic - the real deal. — Michael J. Marx

I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love — Anna Akhmatova

Thrown from the garden, she searches for true love. but she needs an heir. — Suzanne Stroh

Noth that I think you're wrong to be disgusted by anyone in bed with chicken man. — Gena Showalter

The Aryans also composed two of the world's greatest (and longest) epic poems, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, which is eight times longer than the Iliad and Odyssey put together and three times longer than the Bible - all without the benefit of writing. These Vedic recitations, both sacred and secular, form the bedrock of Indian and Hindu culture. The — Arthur Herman

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. — William Bolitho

If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life
that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success. — Jack Canfield

I've always been a huge fan of the Batman universe and Batman, since I was born really. I think the reasoning for that is because he doesn't have a superpower - he has no special ability. He's just a regular person, a regular human. — David Mazouz