Ajemian Varoujan Quotes & Sayings

I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course, with no makeup and from the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was. — Sylvia Plath

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators. — Louis XVI Of France

Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got. — Cathy Guisewite

Injuries are injuries, everybody has them. You play with it. I don't make excuses. — Andruw Jones

The second challenge is to make sure that, growing up in this culture, they have a healthy view of life and God and Scripture. So, that's my other challenge. So, finding that balance is certainly no easy task but it can be very fulfilling. So, that's part of what we talk about in this book. — Alex Kendrick

If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Every time you win a cup it's special, but it's a dream come true when it happens at a club where you started in the youth set-up, surrounded by friends who formed an incredible generation of players. — Clarence Seedorf

Caleb had been my imperfection, with his slightly Americanized British accent, and the way he could play any sport and quote any philosopher. He was such a mix of class and jock, romance and jerk, it made me crazy. — Tarryn Fisher

But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror. — Seamus Heaney

Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it. — Doug Sanders