Alenas Gumuliauskas Quotes & Sayings

The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even though it cost me the unbelievable privations and exertions which we suffer here. — Robert Bunsen

You always have choices, my dear. Always. Never forget that. — Cathy Hapka

I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. — Jane Austen

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world. — Simone Weil

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do. — Sally Ride

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. — Minna Antrim

We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life. — Richard Wright