Makovicka Quotes & Sayings

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. — Louis Kronenberger

The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them? — William, Saroyan

I'm proud of my sexuality. — Adam Lambert

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here. — Alfred Armand Montapert

I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station. — Martha Gellhorn

I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it. — Mose Allison

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith. — John Calvin

You can always quit, so why quit now. — Robert Kiyosaki

Back From Vacation"
"Back from vacation", the barber announces,
or the postman, or the girl at the drugstore, now tan.
They are amazed to find the workaday world
still in place, their absence having slipped no cogs,
their customers having hardly missed them, and
there being so sparse an audience to tell of the wonders,
the pyramids they have seen, the silken warm seas,
the nighttimes of marimbas, the purchases achieved
in foreign languages, the beggars, the flies,
the hotel luxury, the grandeur of marble cities.
But at Customs the humdrum pressed its claims.
Gray days clicked shut around them; the yoke still fit,
warm as if never shucked. The world is still so small,
the evidence says, though their hearts cry, "Not so! — John Updike

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally. — Kalup Linzy

When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here. — Veronica Randolph Batterson

A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery. — Steve Maraboli

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up. — Jim Goad