Dobrynya Kazan Quotes & Sayings

The air is still and freezing cold. The sky is a perfect, pale blue. The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it has just spilled itself over the horizon and it's too lazy to clean itself up. — Lauren Oliver

The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home. — David Foster Wallace

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away. — Ellis Peters

All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing. — Tommy Bolin

I might be better prepared to slay dragons, I decided, than to flirt with boys. — William Ritter

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

You don't get what you want if you don't ask for it. — Sophia Amoruso

I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing. — Valerie Simpson

Worship is powerful. It has huge consequences, whether you praise the God of heaven or the god of appetite. — Kyle Idleman

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. - Japanese proverb — Philip Houston

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed. — G.K. Chesterton

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom. — Djuna Barnes