Akmenys Lt Quotes & Sayings

Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were my money? I'm amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question. — Kent Beck

Don't give a gift with the expectation to get,
but if you have a gift, always try to give. — Debasish Mridha

Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling — Deborah Day

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. — James Joyce

Gauri laughed when he stumbled through the movements of the dance.
"You are a discredit to your title, Vikram. Fox Prince, indeed," she said. "I've never seen a clumsier fox."
"What I lack in skill, I make up for in enthusiasm."
"Do you even know how to dance?"
"Not at all," he said, spinning her in a circle.
"I can tell. Were you lulled by the music?"
"The company."
"Now you're just trying to be sly and charming."
"I am a credit to my title, after all. — Roshani Chokshi

Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world. — Pope Benedict XVI

Thank you, Spanx. Because of you, my postbaby body can mold like Jell-O into a svelte, sexy little shape . . . for a few hours anyway. Your ability to lift and tuck simply takes my breath away, literally! May you continue to do God's work and be the progenitor of the muffin top. THANK YOU, SARA BLAKELY!! Sincerely, All Women. — Jen Hatmaker

I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things. — Ernest Hemingway,

Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future. — Seymour Papert

It's not that the church has a mission. It's that a mission has the church. — Rob Wegner

The smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring. — Margaret Millar

Soup is the song of the hearth ... and the home. — Louis Pullig De Gouy

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience. — Arthur Schopenhauer