Alesya Gagarina Quotes & Sayings

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men. — Henry MacKenzie

The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her with the possibilities of the day. In a moment it would all be gone. And in a moment it was. Still ... that sun streaking through the room, the distant rumble of buses through the open window, the slight wind. This was the part of Sunday that Tatiana loved most: the beginning. — Paullina Simons

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life. — Ike Turner

No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others. — R.C. Sproul

Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems. — Martin Heidegger

Don't doubt, don't stop ... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting. — Ronda Rousey

We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little Styrofoam. Maybe. A little Styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance. — George Carlin

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft. — Erica Jong

The belief that becomes truth for me ... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action. — Andre Gide

Want" is a strong word. — Cassandra Clare

Venture capitalists make money by buying shares in companies and subsequently selling those shares for more than the original investment. It's a simple game fraught with complexities. — Bill Snow

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world. — Ray Lewis

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear. — Lucy Freeman