Alexander Mogilny Quotes & Sayings

Never write anything that does not move you or give you pleasure. Emotion is then transferred from the writer to the reader. — Massimo Marino

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality. — John L. Casti

Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons. — John Climacus

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often. — Edward Abbey

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this. — Holly Near

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep. — Joanna Russ

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain. — Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

Over the years I'd lodged him in the permanent past, my pluperfect lover, put him on ice, stuffed him with memories and mothballs like a hunted ornament confabulating with the ghost of all my evenings. I'd dust him off from time to time and then put him back on the mantelpiece. He no longer belonged to earth or to life. All I was likely to discover at this point wasn't just how distant were the paths we'd taken, it was the measure of loss that was going to strike me
a loss I didn't mind thinking about in abstract terms but which would hurt when stared at in the face, the way nostalgia hurts long after we've stopped thinking of things we lost and may never have cared for. — Andre Aciman

Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren. — Howard Zinn