Mamonova Quotes & Sayings

The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly. — Robert Kirkman

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again. — A.E. Housman

A man named Vicente Fox was sworn in as president of Mexico, ending seventy-five years of control by the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Across the border, the United States Supreme Court released its landmark decision in Bush v. Gore, deciding the 2000 presidential election and ensuring the term "hanging chad" took its place permanently in the English lexicon. Leninist guerrillas launched an attack in Istanbul, and a series of bombs exploded in downtown Manila, killing twenty-two people and injuring dozens more. Cambodia's failed coup slipped from network news bulletins, and the country returned once more to relative international obscurity. — Dan Eaton

An uneventful, quiet life together is more my idea of a romance."

"Really? Oh. Well. It won't get you featured in any of the ballads though."

"Yes," he said, with a heavy sigh. "And that will be the great tragedy of my romance. — Sonal Panse

It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude! — Evangeline Lilly

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. — Dalai Lama

There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die. — Oprah Winfrey

It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry. — Craig T. Nelson

If we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one? — Isabel Allende

Was something very new and strange in his life that these few words of trust from a woman should be so much to him. — George Eliot

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about. — Ai Weiwei

The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house ... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt. — Anthony Trollope

Into an allegory a man can put only what he already knows; in a myth he puts what he does not yet know and could not come by in any other way. — C.S. Lewis

Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine. — Christopher Hitchens