Khotenashvili Quotes & Sayings

We must understand what the word believe implies. It means "commit" and "surrender. — Billy Graham

You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven dreamed tonight that his dog died, he'd have a very, very bad night's sleep, because he's very fond of that dog. But when he woke up in the morning, everything would be all right. He'd know it was only a dream.'
Nicholson nodded. 'What's the point exactly?'
The point is if his dog really died, it would be exactly the same thing. Only he wouldn't know it. I mean he wouldn't wake up till he died himself. — J.D. Salinger

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. — Diana Krall

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him. — Sun Tzu

I miss him. So much my chest aches, and I can't believe the ache hasn't killed me yet. — Sara Raasch

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it. — Henry David Thoreau

We think of our species as swinging on the pinnacle of evolution, but this definitely isn't the final design. If our bodies don't evolve much further, our minds will. It's the only way our species can save itself. An evolution of human consciousness is only a matter of time. And that's when we will finally discover the good life, hand in hand. Meanwhile we just have to tough it out and make the most of things. — Rupert Dreyfus

Affectation of candour is common enough - one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design - to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad - belongs to you alone. — Jane Austen

As we have become more open minded (tolerant) in society we have become more closed hearted. — Peggy Noonan

Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Use it or lose it. — Jimmy Connors

He knew exactly what it was like to lose a child. And that fact wouldn't matter in the least in this circumstance. There could be no commiseration among such people despite the seeming commonality of loss, because it was actually each parent's totally unique hell. — David Baldacci

The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion. — Guillermo Del Toro