Murun Buchstansangur Quotes & Sayings

If you gave up, you've already lost. If you keep going, you get to a new level. — Lyoto Machida

He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing. — Hanya Yanagihara

imbued with these notions: he must care for his lands and his tenants, defend women at all cost, be just and merciful in his dealings, counter wickedness by guarding ordinary people against oppression, protect his faith and his church, and above all else support his lord in battle with courage and unfailing devotion. — Glenn Cooper

Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us living something else? Do we not realize how little we encourage our children to actually decide what they believe, declare what they believe, and then live by it? Whether it's religion, politics, sports, or societal norms. It is not our place to tell our kids what to think. It is our place to teach our kids to think correctly. If we do this, we need have no fear of what they will decide for themselves and how strongly they'll stand behind it. A man will follow his own convictions to his death, but he'll only follow another man's convictions until he steps in manure. — Dan Pearce

Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know. — Ron Miriello

[Trip] "You're a pain in the ass. A wordy pain in the ass."
"Here are two more words for you. Interfering jerk."
"Stubborn idiot."
"Government patsy."
"Bookworm," Trip shot back, and then he had her up against her car, his mouth on hers, his hands on her body, taking as much of her as he could get. She came right back at him, curling her hands into his shirt, trying to drag him closer, which was impossible since the only thing between them was a couple of thin layers of clothing and enough heat to cause spontaneous combustion. — Penny McCall

As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel. — Patrick Troughton

Twas said better to light a candle than curse the dark ... — Robert McCammon

We all need our quiet, I think. We all have our unspoken wishes, hopes we cannot mention, choices we may yet regret. — Intisar Khanani

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone. — Emile M. Cioran

There are not enough faces. Your own gapes back
at you on someone else, but paler, then the moment
when you see the next one and forget yourself.

It must be dreams that makes us different, must be
private cells inside a common skull.
One has the other's look and has another memory.

Despair stares out from tube-trains at itself
running on the platform for the closing door.
Everyone you meet is telling wordless barefaced truths.

Sometimes the crowd yields one you put a name to,
snapping fiction into fact. Mostly your lover passes in the rain and does not know you when you speak.

- I Remember Me — Carol Ann Duffy

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance. — John Barton