Daniil Harms Quotes & Sayings

And sure, it was three on one. But what a one. — John Green

Don't make a wish you aren't willing to come true.
Don't dream a dream you aren't willing to pursue.
Don't love a man you can't say, "I do". — Willowy Whisper

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee. — William T. Vollmann

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind. — Marian Wright Edelman

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson

We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have more than most. We are good secret-keepers. We can tie weights to out guilt and passions, and hatred and deceitfulness, and let them sink down, so that you'd never know they existed at all. But we know. I can count all mine. — Susan Fletcher

Art is not in some far-off place. — Lydia Davis

God seldom gives us all we need in order to understand, but He always gives us all we need to obey. — Wayne Stiles

In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises. — Paulo Coelho

Any punishment was his catnip.
The evil fucker was a sadistic freak who preyed on the weak foraging out their flaws like a pig with truffles and flicking at them until they broke apart. — V. Theia

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep. — Victor Hugo

There's somebody else just like you trying to do it! But you gotta do it faster than they do it! — Eric Thomas