Gismondi Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay? — Paullina Simons

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people. — D.H. Lawrence

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself. — Michael Billig

This is why the "apply some principles" approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages. — John Eldredge

if you walk the straight and narrow, they can never blackmail you or coerce you into doing something you don't agree with. — Sidney Halston

Life is for happiness and we feel it with appreciation and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. — William James

I'm your friend, Sunshine," he said. "Everything else is just static on the line. — Robin McKinley

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America. — Henry Rollins

The skanky vamp biting for bucks on the dark end of state street is your ex boyfriend? William asked. The look on William's face implied he hoped I washed after interacting with Parrish — Tate Hallaway

We must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the divine and heavenly fire of the Holy Spirit? Or does it lean toward Jewish superstition? Is its surface piety something which has come down from bloated worldly philosophy? We must examine this most carefully, doing as the apostle bids us: 'Do not believe in every spirit, but make sure to find out if spirits are from God' (I Jn. 4:1). — John Cassian

A wonderful man, Ivan Ivanovich! He has a great love of melons. They're his favorite food. As soon as he finishes dinner and goes out to the gallery in nothing but his shirt, he immediately tells Gapka to bring two melons. Then he cuts them up himself, collects the seeds in a special piece of paper, and begins to eat. Then he tells Gapka to bring the inkpot and himself, with his own hand, writes on the paper with the seeds: "This melon was eaten on such-and-such date." If there was some guest at the time, then: "with the participation of so-and-so. — Nikolai Gogol

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

you go back and back and back and it's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe. Do you think anybody is English? Really English? It's a fairy-tale! — Zadie Smith

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros ... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing. — Mel Gibson