Balsys Linas Quotes & Sayings

I have neither one nor the other, and that has been going on for so long now that I have stopped wondering whether it is hate or love which gives us the strength to continue this life of lies, which provides the formidable energy that allows us to go on suffering, and hoping. — Georges Perec

So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Reading is Water for the Soul! — KandyMay Poff

A Maven is someone who wants to solve other people's problems, generally by solving his own," Alpert said, which is true, although what I suspect is that the opposite is also true, that a Maven is someone who solves his own problems - his own emotional needs - by solving other people's problems. — Malcolm Gladwell

Death takes no bribes. — Benjamin Franklin

Nature will always be nature. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks. — Donald Rumsfeld

People outdoors here just scuttle in vectors from air conditioning to air conditioning. The sun is a hammer. I can feel one side of my face start to cook. The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims. — David Foster Wallace

Why is it that they have Bibles in every motel room? Why should a man want to read the Bible when he's with a woman alone in a motel room? Why would he be interested? Whatever he's praying for, he's already got! — Jackie Mason

Chava," he said, "it's a cruel irony that you have the most difficulty precisely when those around you are on their best behavior. I suspect you would find it much easier if we all cast politeness aside, and took whatever we pleased."
She considered. "It would be easier, at first. But then you might hurt each other to gain your wishes, and grow afraid of each other, and still go on wanting. — Helene Wecker

The show is definitely not just about weight-loss physically. It's more about finding yourself. It's really funny because I realized at one of our table reads that 'Huge' was really about the weight that we carry around mentally. — Raven Goodwin

Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work and make the best of it. — Kyra Gregory

Not comprehending things the way other people do is fine in academia because we can usually find our own methods, but in social situations, this same tendency plays out differently - we can't always impose our own rules and priorities on others. We can't research people in everyday conversation the way we research information from books. It is not uncommon for us, when we're young, to ask too many questions of others, which makes them uncomfortable. If we could set the tone, we would probably be more comfortable, but we can't so we shut down. — Rudy Simone

The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance. — Evan Currie