Kovalenka Quotes & Sayings

Two thirds of leadership is encouragement. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard. — Kate Hudson

They fancied
themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences. — Albert Camus

And when I think there are people around me who complain they can't find anything good to read. What nonsense ... every month you and I discover a masterpiece. — Laurence Cosse

We are not lost because we are going to wind up in the wrong place. We are going to wind up in the wrong place because we are lost. — John Ortberg

He had no longer free energy enough for spontaneous research and speculative thinking, but by the bedside of patients the direct external calls on his judgment and sympathies brought the added impulse needed to draw him out of himself. It was not simply that beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectably and unhappy men to live calmly - it was a perpetual claim on the immediate fresh application of thought, and on the consideration of another's need and trial. Many of us looking back through life would say that the kindest man we have ever known has been a medical man, or perhaps that surgeon whose fine tact, directed by deeply-informed perception, has come to us in our need with a more sublime beneficence than that of miracle-workers. Some of that twice-blessed mercy was always with Lydgate in his work at the Hospital or in private houses, serving better than any opiate to quiet and sustain him under anxieties and his sense of mental degeneracy. — George Eliot

It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is. — Jason Mraz

Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry — William Empson

We don't work in the traditional TV format where we're like writing concurrently to shooting. Like, we really view it as a large feature film. — Jay Duplass

That's right", she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. "You weren't with me that time I walked in on them doing the deed. Seriously Freudian horror."
"You saw your parents at the best," Mom murmurs, before Dad sweeps her into another kiss.
"Go ahead," Josie calls. "Mate in public. Tonight we won't even mind. You deserve to break a few decency laws. — Claudia Gray

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed. — Samantha Power