Olgerts Cakars Quotes & Sayings

there are more slaves in the world today than ever before, although they represent a smaller percentage of the world's population than in the past. Widespread calls for abolition, of course, began — E. Benjamin Skinner

I could be worried about it if I had the wrong attitude. I don't think that I want my life and my daily occurrences to influence the direction. I don't want my daily life or my happiness to be a direct influence on music or my sadness. — Justin Vernon

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype. — Joan Chen

A lifetime in the business had taught her that, apart from the few good people that work along-side you,nobody is to be trusted,ever,because sooner or later they'll let you down,sure as God made little green apples. And, when you came to think of it,hadn't that been the dirtiest trick of them all? — Tom Holt

You were created a hero and born to prove it. Stand on challenges and make a difference. — Israelmore Ayivor

How did we go from tea to death so quickly?" wondered Quesnel. "Sometimes," said Prim darkly, "there is a very fine line between the two." "There's — Gail Carriger

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think. — Bertolt Brecht

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books. — Julia Glass

The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy. — F.B. Meyer

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end. — Samuel Beckett

The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these opportunities pass them by — Margaret Beckett

You just do the best you can with what you've got ... and sometimes magic strikes. — Sally Field

Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve toward a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being; to return to Eden, make friends with the snake, and set up our computers among the wild apple trees. Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution - a melding into the godhead, into love - is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to acknowledge that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions and financial ploys are not merely counterproductive but trivial. Our mission is to jettison those pointless preoccupations and take on once again the primordial cargo of inexhaustible ecstasy. Or, barring that, to turn out a good thin-crust pizza and a strong glass of beer. — Tom Robbins