Pasternaks Body Quotes & Sayings

Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary. — J.M. Coetzee

Whatever loss, pain or tragedy you have experienced, you can get through. — Aimee DuFresne

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead. — Marilyn Vos Savant

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice. — Robert Plant

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self. — Anton Chekhov

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

His whole life he tried to make things better for poor children, but his real calling was being a father. It was a talent with him. As soon as our girls could sit up, he was wheeling them to the library and taking out books to read them bedtime stories. — Anita Diamant

I was lonely amidst a world of things lit up by phosphorescent flashes of cruelty. I was delirious with an energy which could not be unleashed except in the service of death and futility. — Henry Miller

I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation. — Dave Barry

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves. — Jon Meacham

Unless a subject interests me, I'll pass it over and save my film for better things. — Andreas Feininger

But then he touched the flowers
With the dry tips of his fingers.
Tell me how men kiss you.
Tell me how you kiss. — Anna Akhmatova

I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people. — Patrick DeWitt

Memoirs are often about difficult things in a person's life. In my situation, my story starts with about the stupidest, most immoral thing I've ever done, one with terrible consequences. — Piper Kerman

When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to give it, to comfort them, to hold their hand. But children die how they have been living - in hope. They don't know what's happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand - but you end up needing them to hold yours. With children, you're on your own. Do you understand? — Tea Obreht