Lendvai S Quotes & Sayings

If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line? — Benigno Aquino III

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts. — Lloyd Alexander

The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page. — Daniel Nayeri

A principled person's greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves. — Susan RoAne

Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead. — Carson McCullers

I don't think I've ever really had a home before, not until I met you. — Amanda Hocking

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker. — Don DeLillo

I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress. — Mickey Sumner

A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction. — Thomas Maltman

And yet, women keep trying. They put off the rent or the utilities to scrape together the $500 for a first-trimester abortion. They drive across whole states to get to a clinic and sleep in their cars because they can't afford a motel. They do not do this because they are careless sluts or because they hate babies or because they fail to see clearly what their alternatives are. They see the alternatives all too clearly. We live, as Ellen Willis wrote, in a society that is "actively hostile to women's ambitions for a better life. Under these conditions the unwillingly pregnant woman faces a terrifying loss of control over her fate." Abortion, wrote Willis, is an act of self-defense.5 — Katha Pollitt

When I loose my faith in Human nature, I put my faith in Nature- — Lucinda Riley

The Magyars were claimed to be descendants of the hideous Asiatic Scythians of legend, half men and half apes, a witches' brood begotten by devils. The sources - chronicles and annals - were all copied from one another, not on the basis of eyewitness accounts but following the characterisation of older chroniclers. Soon the "new barbarians" became identified with the Huns, who are remembered only too well in Europe. Attila had, after all, become in Western eyes the embodiment of barbarism, the anti-Christ, and at the time of the Renaissance he already appeared in Italian legends as the king of the Hungarians, constantly hatching plots, and depicted with dog ears, the bestial offspring of a greyhound and a princess locked up in a tower.12 — Paul Lendvai

Sometimes letting the truth out lets people heal, and sometimes it makes things worse. And you couldn't really know which, until you did it, and sometimes only later. — Sara J. Henry

Death is merely an illusion of the departed ... Just because you cannot physically see the idea of God, doesn't mean that he or she isn't there. Just because you cannot physically see someone that isn't here, doesn't mean that they aren't there. — Lionel Suggs