Anatevka Russia Quotes & Sayings

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication
in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on. — Rachel Cohn

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work... — Albert Einstein

A high education is a key to get desired job but the skill stay you on. — Amama Sheikh

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, of his attitude toward God and fellow man, of his individual and collective responsibility and of the sense of his pilgrimage on earth. — Pope Pius XII

Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise. — T.H. White

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. — Umberto Eco

We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go. — M.J. Ryan

To leap into it and hold on, connecting everything, — Mary Oliver

Some people have no business attending a dignified tea. Gawking as if I belong in a zoo, when they're the ones who have all the manners and the fashion sense of a monkey. — A.G. Howard

Existence is the awareness of awareness. — Frederick Lenz

Tulips are the only flowers that continue to grow, up to an inch or more, after they're cut. — Sarah Jio