Bainter Construction Quotes & Sayings

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. — Lev Grossman

My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats! — Robin Williams

If a dream stubbornly returns from seemingly weightless nights; then give him your trust. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it toward you, and as it collects, you really can't believe that there's something else at the end of it. Something that isn't just more pain. But there's always something else at the end; something at least a little different. You never know what that thing will be, but it's there. — Meg Wolitzer

To obtain life is to add value on other people. Conversely, to obtain death is to subtract value on other people. — Andrew Masuku

Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry. — Pamela Paul

If TV sitcoms idealized the American suburbs of the 1960s, the works of the artistic elite disparaged them ceaselessly, then and now. The songs of Pete Seeger, novels like Revolutionary Road, the stories of John Cheever, movies like Pleasantville and American Beauty, television series like Mad Men: in all of them, that long-ago land of lawns and houses is depicted as a country of stultifying conformity and cultural emptiness, sexual hypocrisy, alcoholism, and spiritual despair. Privilege murders the senses there, the creatives tell us. Gender roles strangle freedom. Family life turns the heart of adventure to ashes. There's bigotry and gossip and dangerous liaisons behind every closed door. Oh, the soul, the human soul! In the suburbs of fiction, she is forever dying. But — Andrew Klavan

Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola is consumed by more people than Chateau Lafite, or the Beatles are more familiar than Beethoven. — Gregor Piatigorsky

She was his world now, and he'd do what he could to protect it. No matter the cost. — Carrie Ann Ryan

We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances. Sometimes we have to steer a little more forcefully - you can't fry French fries in the New York Public Library. — David Castle

I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge. — Luc Sante

Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying. — Muriel Barbery