Akhmatova Portrait Quotes & Sayings

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett

No. Yeva hasn't been very forthcoming this morning. — Richelle Mead

I'm not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella. — Penelope Cruz

What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain. — Jeanette Winterson

Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to. — John Baldessari

Have I come at a bad time?" she managed to say without guffawing. I believe I said something on the order of "argh," and compounded my embarrassment by trying to cover myself with the sweatpants I'd picked up off the floor. — Jeffrey Cohen

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge. — David Suzuki

The hatred for ex-soldiers on the part of those who had not fought was something I could not understand. They wanted us to disappear. There were no more parades now, no more kisses on the cheek. Soldiers were no more than beggars, and nobody likes a beggar. Perhaps we made them feel guilty by our presence. They might have preferred it had we all died in the mud and been buried far from England in places whose names we had not even learned to pronounce properly before we perished. — John Connolly

One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed that is part of their job, but advocacy is also getting governments to step up to the plate. They can also give more voice to those who don't have one. — Nicholas Kristof

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. — Graham Greene

No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit. — Umberto Eco

I have found in my life, Rek, that there are a few actions which are unforgivable. And certainly there are no words said that carry such a penalty. It is a man's lot, I fear, to strike out when he has suffered hurt. — David Gemmell

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good. — Luciano Pavarotti

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos ... — Rita Mae Brown

You create your own life by how you see the world and your place in it; — Ken Robinson