Nodar Shukakidze Quotes & Sayings

It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever. — Jack Kerouac

Ted took to extremes an attitude we all had, that anyone in any sort of trouble was our responsibility. And part of our duty was to explain to anyone with any kind of a spark that life was a glorious adventure. Looking back I should imagine that of all the appallingly hard work we did, the only part of it that achieved anything was this personal proselytising. I doubt whether any of the people we took on will forget the sheer exuberance of our conviction in the gloriousness of life, for if we didn't have it by temperament we had it on principle. — Doris Lessing

Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games. — Lea Thompson

Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway. — Rahul Dravid

We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all. — Stjepan Hauser

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. — Cyril Connolly

Intellect can be helpful, but it needs consciousness to be its master; otherwise it can behave in a very stupid way. It can misunderstand things, it can misrepresent things. It needs a master to guide it, to give it a sense of direction. That master is your being. — Osho

The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think. — Jonathan Glover

If you criticize others' ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are. — Garrison Wynn

Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction. — Peter Grimwade

I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

Seward appreciated the honest and open way that Stanton lied; it was the hallmark of the truly great lawyer, and demonstrated a professional mastery not unlike his own. — Gore Vidal

To all those who I do not know, and who live in the worlds where superstition and barbarism are still dominant, and into whose hands I hope this little book may fall, I offer the modest encouragement of an older wisdom. It is in fact this, and not any arrogant preaching that come to us out of the whirlwind: "Die stimme der vernunft ist leise". Yes, The voice of reason is very soft, but it is very persistent.
In this, and in the lives and minds of combatants known and unknown, we repose our chief hope. — Christopher Hitchens

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed it does. In the absence of any absolutely sensational discovery in prehistory, there is an up-to-date and scientific manner of understanding man, which is solidly based on palaeontology. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

So I fight. I fight the only way I know, with thinking of Ky, even thought the pain of missing him is so strong I can hardly stand it ... I think of him, I think of him, I think of him. — Ally Condie