Alyona Ponomarenko Quotes & Sayings

When you fall in love, waves of joy fill your dreams and become your reality while your realities become your dreams. — Debasish Mridha

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline. — John F. Kennedy

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent. — Philip Roth

The gold of her promise
has never been mined

Her borders of justice
not clearly defined

Her crops of abundance
the fruit and the grain

Have not fed the hungry
nor eased that deep pain

Her proud declarations
are leaves on the wind

Her southern exposure
black death did befriend

Discover this country
dead centuries cry

Erect noble tablets
where none can decry

"She kills her bright future
and rapes for a sou

Then entraps her children
with legends untrue"

I beg you

Discover this country

from America — Maya Angelou

One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid. Usually standing from behind. — Aziz Ansari

A man of honor does swiftly that which must be done. — Susan Kearney

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. — William Shenstone

Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings. — John Kenneth Galbraith

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. — Merton Miller

Very few people voluntarily make things worse for themselves, if they have a choice. You know, there's the way we all like to think we behave, and then there's the way we actually do. — Mhairi McFarlane

O come all ye faithful ... " I began.
"Joyful and triumphant ... " Liam joined in.
We made it through the first three words of the second verse, and then realised we didn't know any more.
"Liam?"
"Yeah?"
"We could be the two worst singers in the history of the entire world. — Tammy Blackwell

You can only chase a butterfly for so long. — Jane Yolen

Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding hill tracks. Songs were sung about him to the cattle and both songs and tales had become even stranger since his supposed death when he vanished through the wind and the night over a great cliff. Tales kept cropping up of a ghost horse seen, or imagined, roaming over the mountains at night, of stockmen waking in a hut at midnight, hearing the tremendous stallion's cry which could only be Thowra's — Elyne Mitchell