Niculae Havrilet Quotes & Sayings

Like all pacifists, Zweig evaded the question of how to protect the peaceful sheep from the ravening wolves, no doubt in the unrealistic hope that the wolves would one day discover the advantages of vegetarianism. — Theodore Dalrymple

My old man was eighty-six per cent white bread and a hundred per cent asshole. — James Sallis

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now? — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure. — Jesse Eisenberg

In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best of the human potential as it evolves, but participation in the divine life itself. — Thomas Keating

Her parents took her very seriously; she had trained them, with a combination of treats and punishments, to allow her to do as she pleased and express herself, and to pay attention to her opinions. Thanks — Jane Smiley

I sensed her before I saw her but I didn't scream. I remember thinking at the time that the split seconds before death were a quiet and still place. Her eyes were unapologetic, piercing and untamed. This is how it will end, I thought to myself with no sense of tragedy. It seemed complete and, in a way, romantic. But another second passed and then another. She released me from her hypnotic gaze and bent her beautiful head. And then with gentle flicks of her tongue began to drink from the river. Her eyes never wavered from mine as she lapped at the cool waters that flowed between us. And then, in a blink and a whisper, she was gone. — Giselle Fox

To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense. — Erasmus Darwin

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind. — Mary Oliver

Nice of you to care, gnome girl. He tapped his cheeks, grinning now. — Anne Eliot

All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself. — Robert Benton

The locust has no king
Just noise and hard language
They talk me over — David Eugene Edwards

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency. — Sakyong Mipham

He [Stuart Immonen] and I have known each other over email for 18, 19 years or something, so to finally work with him is like kissing the girl that you always wanted to kiss. — Mark Millar

But Grandfather Stupid was having the most fun of all. "You sure can polka, Dot," he said. — Harry Allard