Akvilina Krasauskaite Quotes & Sayings

Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some metal, the fires. The furnaces roar, the hammers crash; and the metalworkers who forge ingots, weapons, tools, and so on are completely ignorant of the real uses to which their products will be put. The workers can only refer to their products by conventional names. Well, that's where we all stand, all of us! Nobody can see the real character of what he creates because every knife blade may become a dagger, and the use to which an object is put changes both its name and its nature. Only our ignorance shields us from terrible responsibilities. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. — Theophrastus

We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth. — Kenneth Keniston

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions? — Ernst Lubitsch

The person who has the guts to ask themselves 'Why?' at least once a week, and be totally honest with themselves about the answer, is already twenty steps ahead of their smarter, more experienced rival. — Mark Bouris

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header. — George Will

You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found, — Martin Parr

Nothing was just one thing; there were worlds within worlds. Those of us who trod the line between were blessed and burdened with both. — Rachel Hartman

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy. — Bjorn Lomborg