Miestai Abeceles Quotes & Sayings

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present. — Samuel Johnson

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. — Kin Hubbard

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. — Muhammad Iqbal

Fearless to the strong; humble to the weak, — Julian Barnes

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. — Virginia Woolf

I've been asking around to find out what girls are into," Eugene tells me, really pleased with himself. "So I'm gonna get a spray tan and make red-velvet cupcakes. — Flynn Meaney

Unhappily, law is by no means confined to its own department. Nor is it merely in some indifferent and debatable views that it has left its proper sphere. It has done more than this. It has acted in direct opposition to its proper end; it has destroyed its own object; it has been employed in annihilating that justice which it ought to have established, in effacing amongst Rights, that limit which was its true mission to respect; it has placed the collective force in the service of those who wish to traffic, without risk, and without scruple, in the persons, the liberty, and the property of others; it has converted plunder into a right, that it may protect it, and lawful defense into a crime, that it may punish it. — Anonymous

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog. — Alfred Kahn

Instead of being an inert object, nothingness would appear to be a dynamic thing, a sort of annihilating force. — Jim Holt

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility. — Peter Jackson

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate. — Nancy Pelosi

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed. — G.K. Chesterton

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks. — Steven Pinker