Krylov Basni Quotes & Sayings

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing! — Douglas Adams

We stand at a crossroads. Idolatry looms. Traditional values in jeopardy. Truth under siege and virtue abandoned. — Gregory Maguire

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough. — Jodi Picoult

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz. — Andy Stanley

Unless you are fulfilling your spiritual mission (and this is my opinion totally), you anaesthetize yourself or you wound yourself. — Mark Victor Hansen

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers. — Matthew Arnold

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. — Grover Norquist

People ask me why I work so hard and why I have this compassion to reach the top and be great. I respond by telling them, "I work insanely hard because people said I couldn't do it." When someone tells me I can't do something, or that I'll never achieve my goals and visions, I am determined to prove them wrong. — Robert Cheeke

Freedom is just another word for no one cares. — Katherine Ewell

There was such a rush about me: wing, and tangled spray, and colors upon colors and shades of colors that were not colors at all but shifts of white and silver. If light like that were sound, it would sound like the sea on sand, and if my ears were eyes, they would see such a light.
I crouched there, gasping in the swirl of it, and a flood struck me, shallow and swift, turning up and outward like flower petals where it touched my knees, then soaking me to the waist in its bubble and crash. I pressed my knuckles to my eyes so they would open again. The sea on my lips with the taste of tears and the whole white night shouted and wept aloud. — Theodore Sturgeon

I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat! — James Cagney

All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else's song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good! — George Jones

I pretty much ate everything that I like and I've always wanted to eat and I just didn't hold myself back and it was the best. — Randall Park

You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying. — Sam Altman

I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady. — Mae West