Lasaulec Quotes & Sayings

Italy. 'I must use my freedom while I feel so much strength and youth in me,' he said to himself. 'Pierre was right when he said we must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and now I do believe in it. Let the dead bury their dead, but while there is life we must live and be happy!' thought he. — Leo Tolstoy

a 2010 University of Michigan study shows that college students today are 40 percent less empathetic than they were thirty years ago, with much of the drop having occurred since 2000. (The study's authors speculate that the decline in empathy is related to the prevalence of social media, reality TV, and "hyper-competitiveness.") — Susan Cain

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational. — Thomas M. Disch

They're constrained by a shortage of people who excel at choosing the right novel ideas. The — Adam M. Grant

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it. — Ronald Reagan

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

My sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be. — Robert Frost

A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands. — Nicholas Sparks

I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most. — Rooney Mara

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. — Joseph De Maistre

If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent. — F. Huegel

wished they had more time. Already the day — Glen Apseloff

After all, I thought, what were days and weeks in the presence of eternity? — Diana Gabaldon

Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown. — Leonardo Da Vinci