Excursie Cu Surprize Quotes & Sayings

Variety is the spice of life, a truth which, of course, every happy marriage seems to contradict. — Theodor Fontane

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good. — Ingvar Kamprad

That's it. Keep that edge. Fight like there's no tomorrow. — Henry V. O'Neil

I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was ... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job, and it was essential that there should be a public relations job done in the post that he had. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes. — Dean Cavanagh

The desire to experience new kinds of community led a number of thoughtful and idealistic people to reject the patterns of vocation, family life and religion with which they had grown up. Their attempt to establish new patterns of social bonding in uncontaminated rural retreats can be seen as a secular monasticism, but they often discovered that to abolish the boundaries of authority, family and property created a whole series of problems which they did not have the spiritual and personal resources to solve.

At their best, such groups have opened up new horizons of discipleship, but they have often learned some hard lessons about the intractable sinfulness and selfishness of partly-redeemed human nature. — Ian Breward

In LA, I live on sushi or salad. — Denise Van Outen

The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens. — William Shakespeare

My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to only do something that I think will challenge me and that I, personally and very subjectively, I think is good not do something because I think it will bring me a lot of money or bring me a lot of awards. I've tried to very, very rigorously be highly subjective about what I do. And that's something that I think I have basically lived by. — Glenn Close

Nowadays I just don't care; I've taken the Frank Zappa stance. I am who I am! Some love me, some loathe me, some respect me and some despise me. But after all that's been, I still love the insane! As they're exciting, dangerous and highly explosive! For me mad dogs are gentlemen. — Stephen Richards

But jealousy is a dreadful thing, Jessica. It is the most natural to us of the really wicked passions and it goes deep and envenoms the soul. It must be resisted with every honest cunning and with the deliberate thinking of generous thoughts, however abstract and empty these may seem in comparison with that wicked strength... There is no merit, Jessica, in a faithfulness which is poison to you and captivity to him. — Iris Murdoch

As people become aware of the finitude of their life, they do not ask for much. They do not seek more riches. They do not seek more power. They ask only to be permitted, insofar as possible, to keep shaping the story of their life in this world
to make choices and sustain connections to others according to their own priorities. In modern society, we have come to assume that debility and dependence rule out such autonomy. — Atul Gawande

We are too mercurial for our own good. — Erin Morgenstern

When your pants are down around your ankles, that's when everyone arrives. — Nicole Krauss

The road to success, and by that I mean ... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy. — Louis Finkelstein