Kereszty N Versek Quotes & Sayings

CHAPTER XXX RELATES WHAT OLIVER'S NEW VISITORS THOUGHT OF HIM — Charles Dickens

I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich. — Mother Teresa

As we discard a limited mind and a life of limitation to step into the grandness of vastness, we realize infinity itself to be the Guru and all that we do as grace. As we traverse through consciousness that is the Guru, we become the Guru and each thought of ours is perfect in the now, as scriptures. Consciousness is the Guru, the wisdom. — Nandhiji

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to) — William Shakespeare

Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch? — David Mitchell

There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start. — Mary Margaret McBride

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity. — Terry Pratchett

Make enthusiasm a way of life.
Make optimism a way of success.
Make gratitude a way of happiness. — Debasish Mridha

I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots. — David Rakoff

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang! — Luis Von Ahn

For her next birthday she'd asked for a telescope. Her mother had been alive then, and had suggested a pony, but her father had laughed and bought her a beautiful telescope, saying: "Of course she should watch the stars! Any girl who cannot identify the constellation of Orion just isn't paying attention!" And when she started asking him complicated questions, he took her along to lectures at the Royal Society, where it turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked. Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? — Terry Pratchett

How could you hear that? I was whispering!" "Sweetheart," Kat says, saluting me with a glass, "you must have learned to whisper while riding in a helicopter in the middle of a hurricane." "Are — Kristen Proby

Farm to table is a personal choice. — Tom Douglas

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold. — Tryon Edwards

You know what they say: 'Men have throats and daggers have sharp edges'. — Raymond E. Feist