Irodalom Oktv Quotes & Sayings

Here, take my advise ... I'm not using it." (John Jolliffe) — Dana J Goulston

That the best students from mediocre schools were almost always a better bet than good students from the very best schools. — Malcolm Gladwell

Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone. — Gabrielle Zevin

When a child is young," Burck explained one night (perhaps he was relating Hauber's analogy), "you can catch him if he falls. Then he — Blake Bailey

What excuses have you to offer, my heart, for so many shortcomings? Such constancy on the part of the Beloved, such unfaithfulness on your own!
So much generosity on his side, on yours such niggling contrariness! So many graces from him, so many faults committed by you!
Such envy, such evil imaginings and dark thoughts in your heart, such drawing, such tasting, such munificence by him!
Why all this tasting? That your bitter soul may become sweet. Why all this drawing? That you may join the company of the saints.
You are repentant of your sins, you have the name of God on your lips; in that moment he draws you on, so that he may deliver you alive.
You are fearful at last of your wrongdoings, you seek desperately a way to salvation; in that instant why do you not see by your side him who is putting such fear into your heart? — Jalaluddin Rumi

After four centuries, the semicolon has finally achieved it's true calling: helping people wink online. — Abha Maryada Banerjee

A flourishing life requires a capacity to recognize the times when the news no longer has anything original or important to teach us; periods when we should refuse imaginative connection with strangers, when we must leave the business of governing, triumphing, failing, creating or killing to others, in the knowledge that we have our own objectives to honour in the brief time still allotted to us. — Alain De Botton

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. — Aesop

Perception, influenced by experience and knowledge creates an acceptable level of reality. — Kamil Ali