Keszthelyi Vivien Quotes & Sayings

One of the new conscripts, a useless, terrified little creature ... These boys are no use out here. Why send them? Why not recognise that cowardice is a fact and most cowards wish they weren't, and it's not their fault and it's not under their control, and keep them the hell out of our way while we get on with it? — Louisa Young

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. — William Feather

Whatever is done without heart is done in the dark, no matter how scriptural it may appear to be — A.W. Tozer

A lot of us have been raised with the Bible and with movies from Hollywood to believe that God shouts down from the heavens or appears in a burning bush. It's always so dramatic and kind of scary. So that's what we all expect when we're asking God for some answers. — Echo Bodine

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load. — Anatoly Chubais

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can. — Ginger Baker

People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life. — Pete Sampras

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. — Walter Savage Landor

Narcissists have poor self-esteem, but they are typically very successful. They feel entitled; they're self-important; they crave admiration and lack empathy. They are also exploitative and envious. The malignant types never forget a slight. They may kill you ten years later for cutting them off in traffic. But they act perfectly normal while plotting their revenge. — Janet M. Tavakoli

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age Elizabeth also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art. — John F. Kennedy

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul. — Marc Chagall

Every act of communication is an act of translation. — Gregory Rabassa