Bogolubovo Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes history turns on that little: a single moment, a single bullet. — Phillip DePoy

To recover we must understand and accept impermanence. We must replace the reactive survival instinct of clinging, grasping, and attachment with the wise response of nonclinging, nonattachment, and compassion. In a world where everything is constantly being pulled beyond our grasp, clinging and grasping always result in the rope burns and unnecessary suffering that accompanies it. — Noah Levine

I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves — P.G. Wodehouse

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself. — Jane Fonda

I didn't mind thinking you were a murderer," said Lady Mary spitefully, "but I do mind you being such an ass. — Dorothy L. Sayers

If you want to do something really big, do it as part of a team. — John C. Maxwell

What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty. — Jodi Picoult

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects. — Ricky Jay

Faced with the blazing magnificence of the everyday, the artist is both humbled and provoked. There are photographs now of events on an unimaginable scale [ ... ] When we look at these images, there is, yes, legitimate wonderment at our own lengthening reach and grasp. But it would be vain indeed to praise our puny handiwork
the mastery of the Hubble wielders, the computer enhancers, the colorizers, all the true-life-fantasist counterparts of Hollywood's techno-wizards and imagineers
when the universe is putting on so utterly unanswerable a show. Before the majesty of being, what is there to do but hang our heads? — Salman Rushdie

That such clumsily Soviet efforts are easily laughed off does not defeat their purpose, for their aim is not to persuade but to cast enough doubt to make the truth a matter of opinion. In a world of liars, might not the West be lying, too? — Anonymous

We were put here on earth to act as agents of the Infinite, to bring into existence that which is not yet, but which will be, through us. — Steven Pressfield

Be happy today, let the past bury and let the future fly. — Girdhar Joshi

Nothing could be more gracefully majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness, easily acquired by the exercise of unresisted authority. — Walter Scott

Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude. — Sam Hunt