Konstantin Kavelin Quotes & Sayings

When circumstances appear impossible, faith reminds us that apparent impossibilities are wondrous opportunities for God to move. — Cheryl Zelenka

I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing. — Zachary Levi

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing. — Carol Burnett

What we need is fundamental tax reform. — Rob Portman

Many critics have become de facto teachers. That is a lot of responsibility, and I think it should be wielded with care. Most people appreciate sincere guidance. — Michael Hersch

May this be your final sorrow. — Anita Amirrezvani

I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school. — Nicole Holofcener

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something. — Ray Dalio

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards. — Robert Breault

In the verbal conflagration of a Shakespeare and a Shelley we smell the ash of words, backwash and effluvium of an impossible cosmogony. The terms encroach upon each other, as though none could attain the equivalent of the inner dilation; this is the hernia of the image, the transcendent rupture of poor words, born of everyday use and miraculously raised to the heart's altitudes. The truths of beauty are fed on exaggerations which, upon the merest analysis, turn out to be monstrous and meaningless. Poetry: demiurgical divagation of the vocabulary ... Has charlatanism ever been more effectively combined with ecstasy? Lying, the wellspring of all tears! such is the imposture of genius and the secret of art. Trifles swollen to the heavens; the improbable, generator of a universe! In every genius coexists a braggart and a god. — Emil Cioran

If you need to stop an asteroid, you call Superman. If you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But if you need to end a war, you call Wonder Woman. — Gail Simone

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt ... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary. — George Orwell

Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn't mean you should. — Michael Nesmith