Mithridatic Wars Quotes & Sayings

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own. — Haruki Murakami

People say that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. This is why unsolicited advice should be left to the professionals, because if life gives you lemons but doesn't also give you a whole lot of sugar, you're going to end up with some pretty awful-tasting lemonade. You might as well advise people that if life gives them a bag of wet sand they should make a stained glass window. — Cuthbert Soup

But without William K, I would have forgotten that I had not been born on this journey. That I had lived before this. — Dave Eggers

If somebody says 'no', you're asking the wrong person". — Kris Jenner

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. — Taki Theodoracopulos

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. — Manuel Puig

Hope is like a bud that holds the hidden beauty of a flower. — Debasish Mridha

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success. — Wilhelm Keitel

You didn't understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering. — Sarah Hall

I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged. — Nick Harkaway

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. — Sa'di S. Shaikh Muslihu-D-Din

Morality is societal, but kindness is universal. Be kind even if it not always ethical. — Debasish Mridha