Nakbeni Quotes & Sayings

Money can't be cared about - it's got to be a tool that you use, because if you don't use it, it will use you. — Tony Robbins

I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread. — Jojo Moyes

We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering. — Mata Amritanandamayi

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. — Plutarch

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family — Jane Smiley

Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind. — P.G. Wodehouse

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual. — John Wayne

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious. — Walter Sickert

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection. — Sam Claflin

Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods; they tend to keep an eye on life because they don't think it can be trusted. After her mother was killed by a streetcar, she had been raised in Brooklyn by her sisters, and from things she said, I believe she had been abused as a child. She had lived an entirely different life than mine, that's for sure, which is one reason I found her so fascinating. I think her early life was one reason she had such authenticity as an actress, and as a person. — Robert Wagner

The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much ... that, in these circumstances, they should fall in with a people imbued with a calm and sometimes stolid and bucolic certainty where its spiritual possessions were concerned, barbarians with no sculpture or breeding, necessarily tinged their contempt with impotent wrath. The inevitably logical result of this attitude on the part of the Greeks was the growth of anti-Semitism, of hatred of the Jews. — Joseph Kastein

The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest. — Victor Hugo