Akmens Vate Quotes & Sayings

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. — Laurence Sterne

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad. — Susan Sontag

Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing — Antonio Porchia

There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create a new set of rules and incentives to send it down a better track, but finally people in the first world are going to have to consume a whole lot less. — Michael Pollan

The crime scene was a small burned out house, blackened support beams sticking up like rotten teeth from the piles of char and ash on the ground. The occasional curl of half-burned insulation lay like thin snakes, poisonous and waiting. — Alex Hughes

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily. — Michele Bachmann

God doesn't owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks you to do. Understanding can wait, but obedience can't. — Rick Warren

You never know what show is going to change your life. — Brion James

Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal. — Linda Fisher Thornton

He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread. — Jack London

Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. — Horace

People change spouses more often than they clean out closets. And every time they say, 'This is the one. This is the person I'm going to spend eternity with.' Then forty or fifty years go by and you're just sick of each other, utterly sick, and it's on to the next 'true love.' My question is what good is eternity if you are eternally falling in and out of love? — Rick Yancey

If we consider closely our so-called generous actions, there is none which, from some aspect, is not blameworthy an even harmful, so that we come to regret having performed it - so that we must choose, finally, between abstention and remorse. — Emil Cioran