Esimene Advent Quotes & Sayings

People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but do you think the federal government should have 163 different job-training programs? — Steve Largent

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children ... — Robertson Davies

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection. — Lewis Thomas

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. — Charles Caleb Colton

To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself. — Eric Ripert

You change your business plan to anticipate and adapt to changes in the marketplace. — Jon Feltheimer

Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr). — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

In times of suffering, don't turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus. — Crystal Mary Lindsey

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer. — Lemony Snicket

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it. — Alice Munro

Remember this: a simple pen is much more swift and much more precise than a camera. That's my advice to both beginning and experienced authors: don't write with a camera. A camera is slow. All these modern writers usually make the same mistake - they write books with a film in mind. When you read their works, you don't hear the voice of a real author, you hear that horribly cheesy Hollywood voice-over. Frankly, that's not a novel, it's a movie script. If you write books, use a pen. A pen is swift, it has tempo, you can kill people with it. You cannot kill people with a camera, you can only perhaps bore them to death with it. — Martijn Benders

The picture is the only one featuring a group of people. — Anonymous

I'm not bulletproof, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this. As women, we relive our fears all the time, despite our best efforts to build each other up and truly love ourselves. It happens. — Amy Schumer