Aurelija Karaliunaite Quotes & Sayings

You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again. — Vincent Van Gogh

I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the quarterback." That was nice. I thought it was lots better than saying, "Jones tackles the QB behind the line for another loss of yardage ... " It had a ring to it, and it caught on with the sports writers. But I tell you, doing it was a lot more fun than talking about it. — Deacon Jones

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough. — Brett Favre

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret. — Baltasar Gracian

Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there. — Jonathan Carroll

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make. — Jean Bodin

Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real world, you uncover an opportunity, and then you compare other opportunities with that. And you only invest in the most attractive opportunities. That's your opportunity cost. That's what you learn in freshman economics. The game hasn't changed at all. That's why Modern Portfolio Theory is so asinine. — Charlie Munger

I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice. — Prince Fielder

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record. — Oliver Stone

I WISH THERE WAS A time limit of grief. I wish there was a biological stopwatch that would sound in our heads when it was time to snap out of it. It'd trigger something within us - resolve, strength, courage - and we'd pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and get on with living. And even if you hadn't gone through each of the five stages, once your time with grief was up, you were done. You didn't have to feel pain anymore. — S.L. Jennings

I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me. — Ben Schwartz

You are the Person you want to be

But the Person you want to be is not yourself — Ghost

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism. — Gloria Naylor

Some people are like that: they are made of goodness, their every look spreads tenderness, and from their hands caresses fall all the year round. — Patrick Chamoiseau