Bakonyi Szelet Quotes & Sayings

a setback is a setup for a comeback — T.D. Jakes

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives. — Steven Pinker

Have you ever heard of such a thing as a phone?" I snapped. "You could have called so we knew you weren't dead."
My anger bounced off him. "I see my diabolical plan has worked," he observed.
"What plan?" I asked with narrow eyes.
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Tone down the outpouring affection, Remington, or I might get the wrong idea and kiss you. — Corrine Jackson

Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend — Jim MacNeill

The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple. — Donna Goddard

I do, but I don't like doing that. I would do it out of hate or anger. I would do it because some- one was pushing my buttons, but really I don't want to break my back in some European city while everyone else is drinking espresso. I only do it because someone refused to pay for the shipping, or something like that. I don't want to let a whole city of people down. — Josh Smith

Only citizens familiar with their city as both symbolic and practical territory, able to come together on foot and accustomed to walking about their city, can revolt. Few remember that "the right of the people peaceably to assemble" is listed in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, along with freedom of the press, of speech, and of religion, as critical to a democracy. — Rebecca Solnit

The effortlessness of a performance for which great strength is needed is a spectacle of whose aesthetic beauty the East has an exceedingly sensitive and grateful appreciation. — Eugen Herrigel

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95. — Ruth Bernhard

Progress has peopled history with the marvels and monsters of technology but it has depopulated the life of man. It has given us more things but not more being. — Octavio Paz

When we were kids we always used to say, 'Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.'
When John died, I thought, 'Well, maybe we'll get a message,' because I know he knew the deal. I haven't had a message from John. — Paul McCartney

There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated — Tupac Shakur

I live in New York City. Since 1983, this is my home. It is my heart, it is my home, and it is the city that I love. I enjoy many places and many opportunities, but I absolutely adore New York City. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson