Akimov Death Quotes & Sayings

Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am. — Molly Tarlov

Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie. - Russian — Rachel Van Dyken

We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope. — Ned Vizzini

Mostly I've been in the office, trying to inflict a paper cut on myself serious enough to require medical leave. — Abigail Roux

But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future, — Gina McCarthy

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of. — Ella Maillart

In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?"
Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few seconds. Then counter-attacked:
"I'm a liar by vocation," he shouted. "I lie with joy! Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance."
Then more soberly, he added - his voice lowered - that the principal difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is that in the former there exists only one truth, the truth as imposed by power, while in free countries every man has the right to defend his own version of events.
Truth, he said, is a superstition. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. — Jay Asher

The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health
congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher. — Calvin Trillin

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items. — Robert C. Solomon