Kuriuose Dviejuose Quotes & Sayings

When I was an undergraduate we were told that history had ended, and we all believed it. When the Berlin Wall fell, what history was made of was over. No more Cold War. No more wars. And yet here it was, and is and all of it falling apart. Endings. Worlds dissolving. Weather systems, baking systems, the careful plans of municipal gardeners. Families, hearts, lives. — Helen Macdonald

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids. — Lisa Kleypas

Can you help me move those tables against the wall?" Mama pointed to five tables in the back corner. "The funeral home said they needed four feet of clearance all the way around. — Katie Graykowski

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done. — Boris Johnson

[O]mnipotence is nothing else than subjectivity exempting itself from all objective conditions and limitations[.] — Ludwig Feuerbach

The tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship and to teach something religious, of religious reverence, about real life, in this real world which literature should (and here does) reflect. — Jack Kerouac

That vervey spontaneity became encounter theater therapy under the direction of the Marquis de Paar, who was peerless at grittily vapid chatter, misty bathos, and scenery-chewing controversy. Dick Cavett, who wrote for Paar, said that working for him was like having an alcoholic in the family. — James Wolcott

(People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist most fiercely within themselves.) — Tim Kreider

Destiny and choice are the same thing. You chose to be here, so it couldn't have happened any other way. — G. Willow Wilson

False belief is more emotional than true belief — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Oddly enough, though, that day with Lulu it didn't feel anything like falling. It felt like arriving — Gayle Forman

Well the Kop's exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you've got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they're united and loyal. — Bill Shankly

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position. — Karen Traviss

So he is. So that faint uneasiness lost. That faint hope. To one with so few occasions to feel. So inapt to feel. Asking nothing better in so far as he can ask anything than to feel nothing. Is it desirable? No. Would he gain thereby in companionability? No. Then let him not be named H. Let him be again as he was. The hearer. Unnamable. You. — Samuel Beckett

Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled. — Rick Riordan