Cvetanka Gligorova Quotes & Sayings

The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism. — John Bradshaw

I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is. — Leonard Cohen

Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she'd ever had the bad fortune to meet. — Christina Dodd

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Marathon runners, by default, must have resilient minds. — Ed Caesar

I pass flurries of undergrads who, despite their proudly proclaimed diversity, look more and more the same. — Stephen L. Carter

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. — Stephen Jay Gould

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise. — Enos Slaughter

That night, on a narrow bed in a rented room in a strange city, a dream was dreamed. — David Grossman

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours. — Karl Lagerfeld

And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances. — Oliver Burkeman

And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President. And a lot of people don't want to say that. They'll say, God, don't be attacking Obama. Well, this is Obama's deal and it's Obama that's responsible for this fear in America. — Steve Wynn

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars. — Noam Chomsky