Avuntus Quotes & Sayings

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success. — Joseph De Maistre

I shall die, but I will not kill. — Mahatma Gandhi

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. — Ernest Hemingway,

Then I drew in a breath, and my renewed will with it, lifted the rod in my right hand, murmured a phrase in a language I didn't know, and blew the tires off his fucking truck. — Jim Butcher

I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until about 16 or 17, when I could drive myself to stores and explore on my own. — Mary-Kate Olsen

The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison. — Rose Macaulay

I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa. — Andy Roddick

When you sleep, your dreams are those of a dullard — Patrick DeWitt

I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when I began working in the theater. So, I have written scores for thirteen plays, which are not musicals, but straight plays. — Jeff Britting

Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms. — Shannon L. Alder

Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination. — Jim Rohn

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that. — Blake Lively

That's what I'd ask you to do: Hope for peace. Because I know that I would love to be able to lay down my weapon and get to being a colonist. Just like you are. Just like I want to be. — John Scalzi