Mordovina Svetlana Quotes & Sayings

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that. — Sue Grafton

Rumors are spreading that there are vampires living in Dullsville — Becky Miller

Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story. We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to live and then to death. We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are. — Joseph Campbell

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil. — Henry Crew

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it! — Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no pressure to perform, to succeed, because we already have. If your family and community accepts you, who else must you impress? Just yourself and God, ja? — Sarah Price

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together. — Gautama Buddha

You don't have to beg God; you just have to act upon His Word. — F. F. Bosworth

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. — Lisa Kleypas

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way
like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows. — Dan Simmons

A couple of days after the letter arrived, I was discharged from the hospital, in the custody, so to speak, of about three yards of adhesive tape around my ribs. Then began a very strenuous week's campaign to get permission to attend the wedding. I was finally able to do it by laboriously ingratiating myself with my company commander, a bookish man by his own confession, whose favorite author, as luck had it, happened to be my favorite author-L. Manning Vines. Or Hinds. Despite this spiritual bond between us, the most I could wangle out of him was a three-day pass, which would, at best, give me just enough time to travel by train to New York, see the wedding, bolt a dinner somewhere, and then return damply to Georgia. — J.D. Salinger

What do you gain if you ban employees from, say, visiting a social-networking site or watching YouTube while at work? You gain nothing. That time doesn't magically convert to work. They'll just find some other diversion. — Jason Fried

I didn't literally kill Indians. We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture. — Sherman Alexie

Just imagine the silence in the world, if people talked only what they knew — Karel Capek