Mickevicius Biblioteka Quotes & Sayings

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in. — Steve Reich

To take more risks. To not try so hard to be perfect. To not fear mistakes. — Megyn Kelly

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good. — Orison Swett Marden

It felt like he'd been dragged through the nine circles of hell - by his testicles. — Kay Berrisford

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out. — Philippe Petit

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace. — Philip Yancey

And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches. — William Cavendish

Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition. — George Stigler

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. — Charles Caleb Colton

You build walls & boundaries when you give into your mind. Fear nothing & take control of who you are & who you are meant to be — Joel Brown

His eyes flame, and his breathing increases. Twisted as it is, I find that I'm getting off on his fury. The angrier he gets, the more aroused I become. — Ella Frank

Pretty enough to make Henley the Huntsman want to save me ... but not too pretty, because too pretty is what sets my stepmother off. And she wants me gone - she wanted me gone years ago."
Viv twisted restlessly. "I don't know what she's waiting for. Waiting to make him hate me, I guess. Make him loyal to her so he'll cut my heart out when she asks him to ... And then if Henley doesn't kill me, there's the matter of being pretty enough to attract some necrophiliac playboy. Someday my prince will come - and be enamored of my lifeless body. There's some happily-ever-after for you. — Sarah Cross

Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception. — Melissa Harris-Perry

Only an idiot guesses or reasons or deduces,' the Professor said, patiently. — Kim Newman

If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment. — William Macneile Dixon