Keresztesfalva Quotes & Sayings

When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives. — Amy Vanderbilt

Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children — Christopher Wills

We are using these to follow the Others home. We are maybe using these to end the war." "We are maybe using these to die in a new and exciting way. — Tanya Huff

Damn everything but the circus! ... The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions. — E. E. Cummings

Junior athletics is but one facet of the real gem: life's endless war against the self you cannot live without. — David Foster Wallace

Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake. When we think that the rope is a snake, we are scared, but once we see that we are looking at a rope, our fear dissipates. We have been deluded by our thoughts. Likewise, mentally fabricating self and others, we generate attachment and aversion. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two. — Cameron Mathison

J. J. Abrams is amazing. — Oscar Isaac

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. — Eric Hoffer

Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ... — T. S. Eliot