Asteptam Doamne Quotes & Sayings

Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead. — Benjamin De Casseres

In Eumenides, Apollo, chosen to represent Orestes in his murder trial, mounts a strikingly original argument: he reasons that Orestes's mother is no more than a stranger to him. A pregnant woman is just a glorified human incubator, Apollo argues, an intravenous bag dripping nutrients through the umbilical cord into her child. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action. — Napoleon Hill

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. — Charles De Montesquieu

I don't even have a dog. I tell people I'm allergic so they won't think less of me. Instead I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of responsibility required. — Anna Quindlen

I don't like to eat in movies. I don't like props. Some people have always got to have a thing and they're doing this or doing that. I hate it. I just want to talk or fight. Or both! — Mark Wahlberg

I want my son to become Sachin Tendulkar. — Brian Lara

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless. — Donald Miller

Now, here's a philosophical dilemma for a vicar ... is it a lie if you don't know you're lying? Is it a lie if you're lying to yourself?"
"Is it a sin if I tell my cousin to bugger off? — Julie Anne Long

Comfort is a powerful sedative. — Samantha Garman

Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned. — Douglas Rushkoff

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it. — Norman Ralph Augustine

A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end. — Agatha Christie

marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. — Khaled Hosseini