Kostenko Quotes & Sayings

Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now? — Rachel Hartman

The world's been turned upside down. The most decent people are being sent to concentration camps, prisons and lonely cells, while the lowest of the low rule over young and old, rich and poor. — Anne Frank

And the uniqueness of every moment
seeks the path from pain to a pearl. — Lina Kostenko

If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people. — Karl Pilkington

Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs, let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation. — Abraham Lincoln

And what about the question which looms up continually within Christian discussion, about how human behavior as a whole relates to the overwhelming grace of God? This is the point at which the story of the rich young man, and the other scenes in Mark 10, seem to be saying, No: what matters isn't simply keeping a bunch of rules; what matters is character. Not just any old sort of character, either, but a particular sort: the sort Jesus was urging and modeling - the character of patience, humility, and above all generous, self-giving love. And the message of Mark at this point seems to be that you don't get that character just by trying. You get it by following Jesus. — N. T. Wright

I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied. — Susan Brooks

The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America. — John F. Kennedy

That is all. Two epochs met.
A silly little girl and an old poet. — Lina Kostenko

A godly man puts a kind interpretation upon providence. — Thomas Watson

And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours. — Alexander MacLaren