Byelorussia Quotes & Sayings

Solitude is obviously dangerous for people with active brains. We need men around us who have ideas and like talking. Leave us alone for any length of time, and we start filling the void with supernatural creatures. — Guy De Maupassant

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions. — Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know. — David McCullough

And it's often in those battles that we are most alive: it's on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work. If you want to win any meaningful kind of victory, you'll have to fight for it. — Eric Greitens

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial. — Charles Frazier

It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you ... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on? — Woody Allen

Even recovery brings losses, more changes we must struggle to accept. — Melody Beattie

E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made. — J.G. Ballard

I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something. — William Goldman

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it. — Shunryu Suzuki

There are no infidels anywhere but on earth: there are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice, for the devils believe and tremble. And there are some of the devil's children that have gone beyond their father in sin, but how will it look when they are for ever lost? — Charles Spurgeon

Do what is right because it is right. — Ken Watanabe

We suffer these things and they fade form memory. But daily, hourly, to give up our own possessions and especially to subordinate our own impulses and wishes to to others - these are hard, hard things; and I don't think they ever get any easier.

You can strip yourself, you can be stripped, but still you will reach out like an octopus to seek your own comfort, your untroubled time, your ease, your refreshment. It may mean books or music - the gratification of the inner sense - or it may mean food and drink, coffee and cigarettes. The one kind of giving up is no easier than the other. — Dorothy Day

My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is famous. — Moby

You. I want you and I don't want to be a luxury. I want you to need me. I want you to not be able to concentrate because you're thinking about me. I want you to reach for your phone because you thought of something you have to share with me. I want you to not even be able to breathe at the thought of never seeing me again, because that's how I feel about you, Paige. I want to be a necessity. — Shannon Stacey