Divadla Pro Quotes & Sayings

Pessimism, feelings of worthlessness and lack of entitlement, inability to derive satisfaction from pleasure, a tormenting awareness of the world's general crappiness: for Katz's Jewish paternal forebears, who'd been driven from shtetl to shtetl by implacable anti-Semites, as for the old Angles and Saxons on his mother's side, who'd labored to grow rye and barley in the poor soils and short summers of northern Europe, feeling bad all the time and expecting the worst had been natural ways of equilibriating themselves with the lousiness of their circumstances. Few things gratified depressives, after all, more than really bad news. This obviously wasn't an optimal way to live, but it had its evolutionary advantages. Depressives in grim situations handed down their genes, however despairingly, while the self-improvers converted to Christianity or moved away to sunnier locales. — Jonathan Franzen

We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop. — Pittacus Lore

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. — Patricia Hampl

One of the most important questions a woman can ask herself: What do I really want-and what is my spirit telling me is the best way to proceed? — Oprah Winfrey

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting. — Annie Fellows Johnston

I did see, however, what the Russian church had lost in its first decade of "freedom." Under communism, the church had found a way to survive and often thrive. Scripture and holy song was its lifeblood. — Nik Ripken

We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Hello, pineapples,' he whispered. He bent his head toward his lap and punctured the can, listening closely. The pineapples whispered back. They told him they were safe to eat. — Hugh Howey

By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities. — Orison Swett Marden

An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion." To the inquiry of "What religion?" the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it." — Gilbert Burnet

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law. — Scott Turow

You must learn to read well, Marisa. As long as you're a good reader, you can learn anything, do anything. — Anna Jeffrey

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality. — Azar Nafisi

Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite poet. People like poets to possess the same qualities they do. — P. J. O'Rourke

The warrior masters himself in order to help others. Only when you can feel your enemies inside and know them, can you conquer them. — Brian E. Miller