Milenaya Mektuplar Quotes & Sayings

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. — Thomas Merton

When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling. — Craig T. Nelson

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. — Abraham Lincoln

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. — Thomas Carlyle

I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I travel all over the world, usually 10 months out of the year. I stay at a lot of hotels, and the ones I like best are clean and not complicated. You go to bed and say, 'Wow, I feel comfortable.' — Nobu Matsuhisa

Jesus Christ, with His divine understanding of every understanding of our human nature, understood that not all men were called to the religious life, that by far the vast majority were forced to live in the world, and, to a certain extent, for the world. — James Joyce

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear. — Shirin Ebadi

History tells us what works in the gym, and everything else walks down the road with a carrot in its ass. — Mark Rippetoe

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience. — Jennifer Jason Leigh

It was a long story, and like most of the stories in the world, never finished. There was an ending - there always is - but the story went on past the ending - it always does. — Jeanette Winterson

You have room for three more?" M'Adoc asked Sin. "Sure," Sin said. "We can always use more fuel for the pyre." Kish snorted. "For the record, I don't burn well." Xirena ruffled his hair. "Trust me, human, all of you burn well." "That's right," Simi added. "The Simi can ignite most folks and fry them up extra crispy." Kish — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I want.. she said, knowing what she wanted, feeling pulled toward it, arching toward it, but hardly knowing how to say it. — Laini Taylor

I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy. — Bar Paly