Aleksey F C3 Bcrst Quotes & Sayings

A tub was brought in to melt snow for mortar. They heard somebody saying it was twelve o'clock already.
"It's sure to be twelve," Shukhov announced. "The sun's over the top already."
"If it is," the captain retorted, "it's one o'clock, not twelve."
"How do you make that out?" Shukhov asked in surprise. "The old folk say the sun is highest at dinnertime."
"Maybe it was in their day!" the captain snapped back. "Since then it's been decreed that the sun is highest at one o'clock."
"Who decreed that?"
"The Soviet government."
The captain took off with the handbarrow, but Shukhov wasn't going to argue anyway. As if the sun would obey their decrees! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What do stars do? They shine. — Neil Gaiman

Don't you worry your pretty little mind, people throw rocks at things that shine — Taylor Swift

Your minds have limits but not your hearts, for they are receptacles of endless capacity; but you must open your hearts to this knowledge, as nothing may pass through what is closed. Allah loves the brokenhearted. You are coveting a little water in a clay jug, but when you break it that water rejoins the lake from whence it came. Our egos try to prevent that reunion, and always object to any suggestion of the need to seek reunion. The main purpose of spiritual exercises in any tradition, East or West, is to enable us to overcome the objections put forward by our egos, so that we may pursue our journey to Unity Oceans. — Muhammad Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani

Devaluations are never easy. — Jeffrey Sachs

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it. — Jacob Braude

How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script? — John Rhys-Davies

My name's been on this check for a week now. — Larry Bird

This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back. — John Ilhan

For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation. — Douglas Adams