Lampioni Novogodisnji Quotes & Sayings

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up. — Missy Peregrym

But it's not time that matters. It felt ... like a secret place just us two knew about. — David Mitchell

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters. — Jerome Lawrence

Not everyone Jesus tried to turn back from the brink of destruction responded - nor will they with us. — Billy Graham

Banning not only confines one physically, it imprisons one's spirit. it induces a kind of psychological claustrophobia that makes one yearn not only for freedom of movement but spiritual escape...This insidious effect of bans was that at a certain point one began to think that the opponent was not without but within. — Nelson Mandela

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence. — Edwin H. Friedman

I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know. — Wolfman Jack

Keystone habits offer what is known within academic literature as "small wins." They help other habits to flourish by creating new structures, and they establish cultures where change becomes contagious. — Charles Duhigg

Love is like a classical melody." Shallan grinned. "If you end your performance too quickly, your audience is disappointed? — Anonymous

As deformed as a grotesque potato, — Andrzej Sapkowski

There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority. — Bertrand Russell

The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors. — Karl Hess

It's hard when you're missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs. — Lemony Snicket

Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter. You can make transistors out of them in the same way you can with silicon. At Berkeley, we made the narrowest device anybody had ever made. It was basically a single molecule. — Paul McEuen