Kurganov And Tadmor Quotes & Sayings

I was at once content and stimulated with what I saw: I liked what I had seen, and wished to see more. Yet, for a long time, I treated you distantly, and sought your company rarely. I was an intellectual epicure, and wished to prolong the gratification of making this novel and piquant acquaintance: besides, I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if I handled the flower freely its bloom would fade-the sweet charm of freshness would leave it. I did not then know that it was no transitory blossom; but rather the radiant resemblance of one, cut in an indestructible gem. — Charlotte Bronte

I'm thinking of people in rural Japan and China, where McDonald's hasn't yet arrived. These are the thinnest, healthiest, longest-lived people with the least risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. — Neal Barnard

Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky. — Catullus

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's. — Diane De Poitiers

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion. — Napoleon Bonaparte

We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Life hands out challenges that we all unwillingly accept. We have no choice in the acceptance really because that is essentially what life is; a series of unavoidable challenges thrown our way, and how we assess them, deal with them, and progress through them, shapes our life to be what it will be.
Some of us assess challenges in different ways, either seeing them as a hurdle that one can easily jump over, or as a brick wall that seems impossible to climb. — K.M. Golland

First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me Animate — Gayle Forman

For a man, he has to learn how to get along without a woman for periods of time. For a woman, she has to learn how to get along without a man for periods of time. That's how men and women learn to be able to get along with each other. — Art Hochberg

What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others. — Albert Camus

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question. — Nicholas Negroponte

If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs. — Marilyn Manson

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed. — Viktor Korchnoi