Haberkorn Veternik Quotes & Sayings

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. — Clint Eastwood

Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent. — Sunil Bharti Mittal

Does one always need a reason to like something?" she asks amusedly.
"Because if there isn't any reason, I guess you can just say that's pure love. — Kimberly Joy Villanueva

We were born to run; we were born because we run. — Christopher McDougall

Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts — Bernard M. Baruch

You all have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores. It only makes it okay for guys to call you sluts and whores. — Tina Fey

Where's the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly. I've seen too many estates not to know that. Idolatry! Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only - if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of things - beautiful things - that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another? Because, I mean - mending old things, preserving them, looking after them - on some level there's no rational grounds for it - ... fateful objects. Every dealer and antiquaire recognizes them. The pieces that occur and recur. Maybe for someone else, not a dealer, it wouldn't be an object. It'd be a city, a color, a time of day. The nail where your fate is liable to catch and snag.
- Hobie, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt — Donna Tartt

Life by day and Death by night.So,where do you belong? — Claudia Martin

Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours. — Dennis Miller

What do I bring to the problem of the same and the other? This: that the same be the other than the other, and identity difference of difference. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. — Grandma Moses

We, the living, must find what space we can alongside them; the giant dead whom we cannot tie down, though we grasp at their hair, though we rope them while they sleep — Salman Rushdie

So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option. — James Cameron

I was having trouble making sense of all that Rosie was saying, doubtless due to the effects of the alcohol and her perfume. However, she had given me an opportunity to keep the conversation on safe ground. The inheritance of common genetically influenced traits such as eye colour is more complex than is generally understood, and I was confident that I could speak on the topic for long enough to occupy the remainder of our journey. But I realised that this was a defensive action and impolite to Rosie who had risked considerable embarrassment and damage to her relationship with Stefan for my benefit. — Graeme Simsion

I want more than a one-nighter with a meal plan. — N.M. Silber