Oturmamizi Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass. — Lewis Thomas

You couldn't forget [Pablo] Picasso, [Henri] Matisse and [Joan] Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better. — Frank Stella

A girl conceived in China has to run an eerie kind of gauntlet if she is to survive. many parents will use the ultrasound technique. and, if it reveals. a girl, they'll abort her. If it reveals the baby is a boy, they'll celebrate. — Steven W. Mosher

When you plant the seeds, wait patiently to see the ripen fruits. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything was floating and without weight. Future and past met and both were without desire or pain. No one thing was more important and stronger than anything else. The horizons were in equilibrium and for one strange moment the scales of his existence were even. Fate was never stronger than the serene courage with which one faced it. If one could no longer stand it, one could kill oneself. This was good to know, but it was also good to know that one was never completely lost so long as one was alive. — Erich Maria Remarque

Nativity is the enemy of prophecy. — Giannina Braschi

Always eat the bagel. — Cassandra Clare

Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him ... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking
looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables. — James T. Farrell

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. — Sallust

this midnight my desire will see, shadowed among the embers, furled in flame, the splendor and the sadness of the world — F Scott Fitzgerald

Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army — Joseph Campbell

Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn't necessarily on your set list. — Gladys Knight

But, here's a sad fact: perfect isn't meant to be. When you aim for perfect, you just wind up ruined. — Autumn Doughton

The irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it. — Robertson Davies

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it? — Betty White