Obrok Posle Quotes & Sayings

First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then there must be the conception of what it can be and an absolute conscience as unchanging as the standard meter in Paris, to prevent faking. Then the writer must be intelligent and disinterested and above all he must survive. Try to get all these things in one person and have him come through all the influences that press on a writer. The hardest thing, because time is so short, is for him to survive and get his work done. — Ernest Hemingway,

Generally speaking, a web of great mystification has been woven around time. Above all, the mystification about the ostensible objectivity of time. Utter nonsense. Time is a completely subjective matter, but every person is not a subject, and that is the problem. Timepieces are perhaps exact, but time is not, time is a matter of personality, or even of affinity. — Svetislav Basara

It doesn't really matter how rich you are, we're all just renting here on earth! It all belongs to the Lord. — Louie Giglio

Walk gently, and be brave. — Eleanor Brownn

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me. — Kevin Jorgeson

People who solve problems are happier. — Jim McKelvey

Darcy had walked away to another part of the room. She followed him with her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough to help anybody to coffee; and then was enraged against herself for being so silly! — Jane Austen

Whenever someone starts a statement with, Let me tell you the kind of guy I am, that is a great time to start sawing your own head off. — Dana Gould

Damn him. Damn everything. Why is it all so goddamned hard? — Candace Bushnell

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick. — Elizabeth McCracken

When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity ... that was a quality God's image carried with it ... when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination. — Graham Greene

In Heaven, you're going to get just about whatever you want. Heaven's the place where all your heart's desires will be fulfilled - if they're good ones. Put in your order now! — David Berg

Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional. — Ron Fournier