Akhmatova Last Toast Quotes & Sayings

As absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television. — Stephen Fry

We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts. — Alexandra Stoddard

I saw a video on YouTube of a girl who had very similar reactions to late-stage Lyme disease as I did. And I thought it was crazy. And when I saw her basically have a seizure on camera that looked very much like my seizure I felt, "Oh my god. That's me." And so it was really important to me, and I said to Sini, 'We have to find some way to not just talk about Lyme disease, but to show it. — Kathleen Hanna

Right now I'm just trying to survive, I know I'm gonna get there, dead or alive. — Roger Hodgson

Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure. — Pico Iyer

Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead? — Jay Livingston

I want my relationship with my future boyfriend to be built on trust, not in alcohol , not in the appearance , and in jealous eyes — Zwaantje Nacion

On the revelation that there are no gods or afterlife:-

"I do not 'like' the truth any more than you Avil, or anyone. I wrestled with it for a long time, for a while I was distraught, desperate to find that my research had been wrong - the more I searched, the deeper I delved the more clear it became that the truth was what it is. After much reflection, I came to the conclusion that though accepting the truth is hard, moving on from that, it becomes clear that the important thing is to make the world we live in a better place. We get one life, it's our duty to make the most of it."

~Brael Truthseeker of House Krazic
Deathsworn Arc 2 : The Verkreath Horror — Martyn Stanley

What were doctors, lawyers, scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals. — Charles Bukowski

It's funny how often we celebrate by poisoning ourselves — Johnny Moscato

She devoted her life to this place, this work. If that doesn't make a home, Turyin Mulaghesh, then nothing does. — Robert Jackson Bennett

I love my hunting dog. I loved my hunting dog - I'm not very good at hunting. — Bonnie McFarlane

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Last Toast

I drink to our demolished hose,
to all this wickedness,
to you, our loneliness together,
I raise my glass -

And to the dead-cold eyes,
the lie that has betrayed us,
the coarse, brutal world, the fact
that God has not saved us.

1934 — Anna Akhmatova