Kokernot Family Quotes & Sayings

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself. — Mike Wallace

A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised is a lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems of wisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to be shared, even at the cost od one's life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised. — Sathya Sai Baba

Bullies are just frightened people. — Elizabeth Strout

Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it. — Rands

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do. — Sophocles

He had long accepted that everyone had his own world inside, each as real as the communal world shared by all but impossible for others to access. — Joe Hill

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams. — Salvador Dali

Professionals knew that the most dangerous men in the world were accountants. — Sam Sykes

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before. — Ryan Holiday

Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns, voices are not raised, much goes unsaid. But just beneath the sophisticated composure are longing, loss, heartbreak. And how intensely familiar is the table itself, which made this reader suddenly understand how much of our real life takes place there. Heather A. Slomski is truly a fresh voice on the scene, and The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons is that rare thing, a new book as innovative in its design as it is compulsively readable. — Jaimy Gordon

The animalism of the brute nature in man is disgusting," he thought, "but as long as it remains in its naked form we observe it from the height of our spiritual life and despise it; and - whether one has fallen or resisted - one remains what one was before. But when that same animalism hides under a cloak of poetry and aesthetic feeling and demands our worship - then we are swallowed up by it completely and worship animalism, no longer distinguishing good from evil. Then it is awful! — Leo Tolstoy