Allahverdiyeva Quotes & Sayings

Reclaimed by the small-time day-to-day, pretending life is Back To Normal, wrapping herself shivering against contingency's winter in some threadbare blanket of first-quarter expenses, school committees, cable-bill irregularities, a workday jittering with low-life fantasies for which "fraud" is often too elegant a term, upstairs neighbors to whom bathtub caulking is an alien concept, symptoms upper-respiratory and lower-intestinal, all in the quaint belief that change will always be gradual enough to manage, with insurance, with safety equipment, with healthy diets and regular exercise, and that evil never comes roaring out of the sky to explode into anybody's towering delusions about being exempt. . . — Thomas Pynchon

The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others. — George Jean Nathan

It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world. — Avigdor Lieberman

Jesus. She even knew Liam's name. How was that possible? She'd forgotten her very existence until thirty seconds ago.
Liam looked over, aimed his stick straight at Cecilia and pulled the imaginary trigger.
"Liam!" said Tess at the same time as Cecilia groaned, clutched her chest and buckled at the knees. She did it so well, for an awful moment Tess worried that she really was collapsing.
Liam held the stick up to his mouth, blew on it and grinned, delighted. — Liane Moriarty

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. — John Ruskin

Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle," Burke writes. — Yuval Levin

The determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable; and, though its decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, is nevertheless meant for gracious purposes. — George Washington