Amertumes Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death. — Carl Sandburg

It is not the foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back. — George R R Martin

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it. — Mira Nair

Muslims can say that slavery is not legitimate now, and that crucifixion is wrong at this historical juncture. Many say precisely this. But they cannot condemn slavery or crucifixion outright without contradicting the Koran and the example of the Prophet. 'The only principled ground that the Islamic State's opponents could take is to say that certain core texts and traditional teachings of Islam are no longer valid,' Bernard Haykel says. That really would be an act of apostasy. — Graeme Wood

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity. — Peter Hammill

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner. — Jon Evans

When inadequate men assumed huge burdens, the outcome could only serve Despite. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Sadly, many storytellers and artists are still addicted to the old delusions (happy is boring, evil is interesting) about the risks of good mental health. Even those who don't view peace of mind as a threat to their creative power often believe that it's a rare commodity attained through dumb luck ... .It's possible to define a more supple variety of happiness that does not paralyze the will or sap ambition ... .the number one trait of happy people is a serious determination to be happy. Bliss is a habit you can cultivate, in other words, not an accident. — Rob Brezsny

I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days. — Grant Bowler

The world was hers for the reading — Betty Smith

I see it as my duty to stimulate reflection on what is essentially human and eternal in each individual soul, and which all too often a person will pass by, even though his fate lies in his hands. He is too busy chasing after phantoms and bowing down to idols. In the end, everything can be reduced to the one simple element which is all a person can count upon in his existence: the capacity to love. That element can grow within the soul to become the supreme factor which determines the meaning of a person's life. My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware that beauty is summoning him. — Andrei Tarkovsky

You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it ... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion, and combust the skin ... Now take the ash, which you got this way, and pepper it out on the fields. — Rudolf Steiner

Working is a great distraction technique. — Phyllis Logan

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow. — Sunil Mittal