Jaustukai Quotes & Sayings

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that. — Leigh Bardugo

Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. — Abhijit Naskar

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone. — Erin Morgenstern

Orwell's 1984 [ ... ] is political thought disguised as a novel; the thinking is certainly lucid and correct, but it is distorted by its guise as a novel, which renders it imprecise and vague. [ ... ] the situations and the characters are as flat as a poster.
The pernicious influence of Orwell's novel resides in its implacable reduction of a reality to its political dimension alone, and in its reduction of that dimension to what is exemplarily negative about it. I refuse to forgive this reduction on the grounds that it was useful as propaganda in the struggle against totalitarian evil. For that evil is, precisely, the reduction of life to politics and of politics to propaganda. So despite its intentions, Orwell's novel itself joins in the totalitarian spirit, the spirit of propaganda. It reduces (and teaches others to reduce) the life of a hated society to the simple listing of its crimes. — Milan Kundera

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. — Jane Austen

We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first. — Nick Offerman

Why fear death? Be scared of living. — Laura Marling

Life without GOALS is like flying a plane not knowing where you want to land. The PURPOSE OF LIFE is to know where we want to go and then go there. RVM — R.v.m.

I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much. — Jeremy Brett

Actually, I have to say that I don't believe in having a sexual realtionship outside of marriage. — Brian Littrell

The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter. — Sara Sheridan

[H]uman beings ... make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts ... the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves. — Takeru Kobayashi

Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types. — Laila Robins

I used to think that it got cold up in the Dornish Marches. What did I know? Nothing, thought Jon Snow, the same as me. — George R R Martin

When you are in-spirit (inspired) you have no need for the ego. — Wayne Dyer