Amans Quotes & Sayings

Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual. — Mira Nair

Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I have learned that it is not the truth that will hurt you - it is the lies. — Marion Elizabeth Witte

Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.)
[Lat., Militat omnis amans.] — Ovid

There are always choices in life. People are going to pull you in all directions. Where you end up is a direct result of how wise your decisions are. — Colleen Coble

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pascal Saint-Amans, the OECD's top tax official, said the move was "very unhelpful" as it lumped jurisdictions that have signed up to global transparency initiatives together with holdouts such as Panama. He criticised the criteria as unfair, inefficient and subjective. The commission drew the "first pan-EU list of third-country non-cooperative tax jurisdictions" from blacklists provided by individual members. There were high numbers of offshore centres listed as unco-operative by some countries such as Greece and Italy, while others such as the UK, Germany and Sweden did not list any countries. — Anonymous

First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and the end of end?
And finally give me the sound often heard
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss? — J.K. Rowling

minimize your material-world concerns and to put more of your energy into the essence of life, which is love and service. — Wayne W. Dyer

Bliss and joy come in moments of living our highest truth
moments when what we do is consistent with our archetypal depths. It's when we are most authentic and trusting, and feel that whatever we are doing, which can be quite ordinary, is nonetheless sacred. — Jean Shinoda Bolen

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. — John Sterling

It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die. — D.H. Lawrence

Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever and just threw it away and never showed anybody. Everyone needs to get that first bad screenplay out of your system before you start writing other stuff. — Scot Armstrong

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end. — Chris Patten

I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult. — Ian MacKaye