Grigorovich M 5 Quotes & Sayings

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar — Robert Brault

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

They were with their mother, and so they were acting like children. — Emma Straub

The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway ... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market. — Warren Buffett

Here is tragedy and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum. — H.L. Mencken

Since I can't be a professional on account of lack of education I wouldn't mind being wealthy. — Bernard Malamud

I have a vision, and I know I'm right. — Lech Walesa

I emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the mountain cures and healing waters and winds and junipers run deep in my bloodstream. — Jimmy Santiago Baca

The day never starts nor does it end, we just decide to call it a day..... — Vidur Moudgil

Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah. — Alexander Haig

How to repulse a demon (an old problem)? The demons, especially if they are demons of language (and what else could they be?) are fought by language. Hence I can hope to exorcise the demonic word which is breathed into my ears (by myself) if I substitute for it (if I have the gifts of language for doing so) another, calmer word (I yield to euphemism). Thus: I imagined I had escaped from the crisis at last, when behold
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a flood of language sweeps me away, I keep tormenting myself with the thought, desire, regret, and rage of the other; and I add to these wounds the discouragement of having to acknowledge that I am falling back, relapsing; but the French vocabulary is a veritable pharmacopoeia (poison on one side, antidote on the other): no, this is not a relapse, only a last soubresaut, a final convulsion of the previous demon. — Roland Barthes

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house. — Ariel Gore

If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education. I am older than you, have felt badly myself, and know, what I tell you is true. Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all you life. — Abraham Lincoln