Ninikas Larisa Quotes & Sayings

Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, "Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was admitted to a prestigious, highly selective preschool. After that, everything just kind of fell into place." Instead, you will read about dead ends, lucky coincidences, quirky habits, excessive self-confidence (often interspersed with bursts of excessive self-doubt), and a lot of passion for something. — Charles Wheelan

Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity — Terry Crews

When you say 'fooling around with my favorite person,' it makes me feel like this is just a sex thing. And it's not. It never has been, and that's the last thing I want you to think. — Santino Hassell

Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and gang bangers off the block. My father was very clear: 'I've got guns too, and I'll kill you just as much as a rival gang would.' And he meant it. He was a man of many facets and complexities. — Lupe Fiasco

I am never lonely when I am sharing [Christ] with others. There is a great exhilaration in talking to others about [Him]. — Billy Graham

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad. — Gloria Steinem

Philosophers have argued without a trend toward order; time would lack meaning. The future would be indistinguishable from the past. Sequences of events would be just so many random scenes from a thousand novels. History would be indistinct, like the mist slowly gathered by treetops in evening. — Alan Lightman

Trust is like a valuable antique, once gone, it can never be replaced. — Mouloud Benzadi

But within ourselves we can experience a real difference between restlessness and solitude. What is that difference? It is the difference between living in freedom rather than compulsion; restfulness rather than restlessness; patience rather than impatience; inwardness rather than frenzied outwardness; altruism rather than greediness; authentic friendship rather than possessive clinging; and empathy rather than apathy.3 — Ronald Rolheiser

LADY BRACKNELL. [Rising and drawing herself up.] You must be quite aware that what you propose is out of the question. JACK. Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to. — Oscar Wilde

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery. — Margaret George

The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads. — James K. Morrow