Akhmeteli Quotes & Sayings

You realize how small you are in the grand scheme of things. We're not really the rulers of this planet, we're just tenants, and it's the small stuff, the bacteria and insects and the plant matter that really runs it all. Even the big stuff, the nasty, scary stuff, it's all pretty small in the grand scheme of things, isn't it? — Wildbow

No historians or librar ians were harmed in the making of this book, but some were badgered extensively with questions. — Libba Bray

I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's what you should do as an artist. Why be comfortable? — Lykke Li

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks. — Frank Lampard

I found another girl to pose for Myrto and then I didn't think about Rafaela much, not until a spring day years later. Or rather, I thought about her with an occasional, impersonal pang. Have you ever had a favorite cafe close? It was like that. — Ellis Avery

Nothing in the world is as certain as death. — Jean Froissart

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it. — Dorothea Lange

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture. — Feist

The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. — Savielly Tartakower

Struck in the wet mire
Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city
I thought of Troy, what we had built her for. — Allen Tate

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity. — George Orwell

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love. — James Montgomery

Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through, when I am dead and gone that's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, but I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave and let the honey soak through. — Sue Monk Kidd