Korpilov Mff Quotes & Sayings

They're gonna keep knocking away until all this comes crashing down. But I'm not gonna ever crash. I'm in control. — Rihanna

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. — Roy L. Smith

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. — Libba Bray

If a lifetime in the end is remembered for a handful of days, this is one of them. — Charles Yu

Innumerable careful examinations of all kinds of stones in all parts of the world prove that the earth's crust was formed about 4,000,000,000 years ago. Yes, and all that science knows is that something like man existed 1,000,000 years ago! And out of that gigantic river of time it has managed to dam up only a tiny rivulet of 7,000 years of human history, at the cost of a lot of hard work, many adventures and a great deal of curiosity. But what are 7,000 years of human history compared with thousands of millions of years of the history of the universe? — Erich Von Daniken

The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking. — John Medina

I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere. — David Byrne

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves.
Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done. — Henrik Ibsen

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places. — Alice Munro

The hearts and thoughts are the sacred springs of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A neon-pink 3 flickered and instantly disappeared again into the dark. The sight of it on my own device now made me sick. I held my finger down on the menu screen; each little app logo began to vibrate. I deleted the 3. I contemplated deleting everything. Cleaning it all away. The idea had a charm, a self-cancellation, many little suicides, a way to dispatch myself without actually going anywhere. — Olivia Sudjic

Better to have something to say than to have to say something. — James Cook

approach reveals a point that is often overlooked. It is certainly desirable that societies with bad institutions should get better ones. We see that process going on today all over the world, in much of Asia, in parts of South America and even in Africa. But there is a more insidious process that is going on at the same time, whereby societies with good institutions gradually get worse ones. Why is this? Who exactly are the enemies of the rule of law, the people responsible for the marked deterioration that I detect in our institutions on both sides of the Atlantic? My answers to these questions owe a considerable debt to a now large body of — Niall Ferguson

Commonsense is the wick of the candle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Exercise II.
Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:
Dear Diary,
I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity.
God alive, I feel supple. — Joe Dunthorne