Nevastuici Quotes & Sayings

The highest skill is the true judgment of values. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

The red drapery which was being hung for Christmas spreading itself everywhere like a disease of the retina. Not — George Eliot

On March 4, 1981, Burlington elected him mayor - by a margin of ten votes out of more than 9,600 cast.15 ("Ten anarchist votes!" Murray would say. "And I know who they were!") — Janet Biehl

Don't hate what you don't understand! — John Lennon

I marvelled about the nature of humanity, and how something as lovely as friendship could stem from something so hideous. — Wendy Higgins

Gift-wrap the framed artwork on your walls and rehang them - what's nicer than a wall of presents to look at? — Amy Sedaris

I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff. — Linda Ronstadt

After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach. — Kenneth H. Cooper

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can — Linda Ellerbee

Even our behavior and emotions seem to have been shaped by a prankster. Why do we crave the very foods that are bad for us but have less desire for pure grains and vegetables? Why do we keep eating when we know we are too fat? And why is our willpower so weak in its attempts to restrain our desires? Why are male and female sexual responses so uncoordinated, instead of being shaped for maximum mutual satisfaction? Why are so many of us constantly anxious, spending our lives, as Mark Twain said, "suffering from tragedies that never occur"? Finally, why do we find happiness so elusive, with the achievement of each long-pursued goal yielding not contentment, but only a new desire for something still less attainable? The design of our bodies is simultaneously extraordinarily precise and unbelievably slipshod. It is as if the best engineers in the universe took every seventh day off and turned the work over to bumbling amateurs. — Randolph M. Nesse

I think whatever it is you decide to do in life, if you want to be the very best at it, you have to be able to make sacrifices. Not everybody can do that and I think it makes our sportsmen and women that little bit special. — Jill Douglas