Maidan Nezalezhnosti Quotes & Sayings

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader. — LeVar Burton

I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds. — Joy Harjo

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past. — Mike Ditka

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love. — Oliver Sacks

And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore, every ravenous beast is the living grave of thousands of others, and its self-maintenance is a chain of painful deaths; and in which the capacity for feeling pain increases with knowledge, and therefore reaches its highest degree in man, a degree which is the higher the more intelligent the man is; to this world it has been sought to apply the system of optimism, and demonstrate to us that it is the best of all possible worlds. The absurdity is glaring. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I work with a lot of young people who have poems that are changing their lives, that they're eager to talk about, but every now and then when I meet someone, maybe someone of my parents' generation, and I tell them that I write poetry, they'll begin to recite something that they memorized when they were in school that has never left them. — Tracy K. Smith

After all, Americans can be terrifying. — Connie Willis

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes. — Gillian Jacobs

A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption. — Ouida

It's what you do with the want that matters. — Jim Butcher

He was a peculiar sight. Tears rolling down his face, shouting to drown the sound of the singing rabbit; he said he needed help, pointed to a chicken, handed over some money, grabbed his parcel and bolted out the door in panic.
Boys, thought the butcher.
Drugs, thought the woman.
Justin Case, thought Dorothea. — Meg Rosoff

Books are medicine for the soul. They heal the eternal parts of a person. — Loretta Lost

A great work - yes; but not the greatest, unless he find a State suitable to him; for in a State which is suitable to him, he will have a larger growth and be the saviour of his country, as well as of himself. The causes why philosophy is in such an evil name have now been sufficiently explained: the injustice of the charges against her has been shown - is there anything more which you wish to say? Nothing — Plato