Ilya Pasternak Quotes & Sayings

Well, no need to brood on what tomorrow may bring. For one thing, tomorrow will be certain to bring worse than today, for many days to come. And there is nothing more that I can do to help it. The board is set, and the pieces are moving. One — J.R.R. Tolkien

There were a great many other such tableaux. As Martial had predicted, bears featured prominently in most of them. A temple thief was made to reenact the role of the robber Laureolus, made famous by the ancient plays of Ennius and Naevius; he was nailed to a cross and then subjected to the attack of the bears. A freedman who had killed his former master was made to put on a Greek chlamys and go walking though a stage forest populated by cavorting satyrs and nymphs, like Orpheus lost in the woods; when one of the satyrs played a shrill tune on his pipes, the trees dispersed and the man was subject to an attack by bears. An arsonist was made to strap on wings in imitation of Daedalus, ascend a high platform, and then leap off; the wings actually carried him aloft for a short distance, a remarkable sight, until he plunged into an enclosure full of bears and was torn to pieces. — Steven Saylor

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. — Oscar Wilde

No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its necessity to be but fond imaginations. And small hope is there to bring such men to value the righteousness of Christ, as imputed to them, who are so unacquainted with their own unrighteousness inherent in them. Until men know themselves better, they will care very little to know Christ at all. — John Owen

You are more valuable than both heaven and earth.
What else can I say?
You don't know your own worth. — Rumi

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

Gratitude is a way of creativity. — Nadia Bandura

He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you. — Marie Lu

We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles knot, to work all our days. This mortal probation is one in which we are to eat our bread in the sweat of our faces until we return to the dust from whence we came. Work is the law of life; it is the ruling principle in the lives of the Saints. — Bruce R. McConkie

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others. — Elle Macpherson

It was a counter-attack and I had to take him down. I don't regret it and I would do it again if I had to. — Thomas Gravesen

Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina. — Misty Copeland

Yes, life has many onions. — Skip Coryell

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals. — Marc Davis