Eknihovna Quotes & Sayings

I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory. — Annie Lennox

When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way. — Jack Nicholson

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people. — John Abizaid

Having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children, you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. — Meg Wolitzer

And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate — Taylor Swift

Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II — Charles M. Blow

When you blame others, you give up your power to change. — Robert Anthony

If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons. — Graeme Simsion

Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that? — Suzanne Collins

This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull. — Courtney Milan

I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell. — Matthew Fox

Unconscious motivating forces play a central role in shaping our behavior, but they are also the primary cause of mental illness. — Christian Jarrett

He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue. — Guglielmo Ferrero

Old post cards, tin wind-up toys with rusted gears, buttons long out of fashion, ticket stubs found in a shoebox in the attic - these are the things Alice likes, not new stuff that comes sealed in plastic. — Jan Strnad