Njega Kose Quotes & Sayings

We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires. — William B. Irvine

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can. — Eric Roth

Whatever good works ye send on before [death] ... ye shall find with God. — Elijah Muhammad

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread. — Herbert Hoover

I love taking the boat to the Farne Islands, a few miles offshore. It has a National Trust bird sanctuary with seals and every sort of seabird you can imagine. — Kevin Whately

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play. — Peter Shaffer

In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance. — Tim Cope

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau

The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves. — Martin Amis

The Arabian peninsula is the origin of all the Semites. — Philip Khuri Hitti

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born. — David Brooks

His blessed count'nance; here I could frequent, With worship, place by place where he voutsaf'd Presence Divine, and to my Sons relate; On this Mount he appeerd, under this Tree Stood visible, among these Pines his voice I heard, here with him at this Fountain talk'd: So — John Milton

Embarrassing ourselves in front of strangers is literally one of the worst things that can happen to us. It's in the slot where polio used to be. Awkwardness, rejection, missing out. We've conquered everything else and these constants of human life are all that remain to bedevil us. — Alexandra Petri