Cvyt Quotes & Sayings

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar — Robert Brault

Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it. — David Baldacci

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him. — Rex Stout

Focusing on what you don't want instead of focusing on what do want gets you nowhere. Negativity makes a horrible motivator. Decide what you want and move in that direction. — Steve Maraboli

(When asked "Was the model for Midori (a character in Norwegian Wood) modeled after your wife?")
I showed your message to my wife. She got mad and yelled: "What would make them think I was the model for Midori?!" She told me to fix the misunderstanding immediately, so that's why I'm writing this reply now. Please stop causing problems in my household. Thank you. — Haruki Murakami

The future is not what you will live tomorrow but the future is what you live today so that tomorrow you can be able to look at today and say I have lived. — Angel Phetheni

(Places are constantly changing, haven't you noticed the branches, the river?) No one notices those things, ... everyone walks around without seeing, they become accustomed, accustomed to their houses, their jobs, their loved ones, and in the end they convince themselves that this is their life, there can be no other, it's just a habit. — Andres Neuman

I trust that absolutes have gradations. — Jane Austen

A ward, and still in bonds, one day
I stole abroad;
It was high spring, and all the way
Primrosed and hung with shade;
Yet was it frost within,
And surly winds
Blasted my infant buds, and sin
Like clouds eclipsed my mind. — Henry Vaughan

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities. — Tadao Ando

Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left. — Chris Murray

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question. — Ernst Haas

I'm going to become a beat poet and a lesbian! — Benjamin R. Smith