Patronymic Russian Quotes & Sayings

It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if you wish to find your particular success in life, it is the most rewarding reaction of them all. — Brownie Wise

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large. — Ted Gup

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel. — Elvis Costello

Those evangelicals who have been raised and shaped by forms of Christianity that are roughly "fundamentalist" will either: a. become taken with the modern moral order and thus sort of replay the excarnational development of modernity, just now a few centuries later, sort of catching up with the wider culture; so under the guise of the "emerging church" or "progressive" evangelicalism, we'll be set on a path to something like Protestant liberalism, a new deism; or b. recognize the disenchantment and excarnation of evangelical Protestantism, and also reject the Christianized subtraction stories of liberal Christianity, and feel the pull of more incarnational spiritualities, and thus move toward more "Catholic" expressions of faith - and these expressions of faith will actually exert more pull on those who have doubts about their "closed" take on the immanent frame. — James K.A. Smith

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality. — Clint Eastwood

Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams — Compton Mackenzie

We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran. — Ted Cruz

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't - the enemies of contentment. — Frank Delaney

The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot. — Rupert Everett

There are moments in life, and they happen so infrequently that they tend to really stand out, when life hands you the gift of perspective. Sometimes, we forget to show our appreciation. Sometimes, we get our priorities mixed up. And, sometimes, we forget how far we've come. But life always has a way of nudging you to remind you about these important things. — Cassia Leo

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. — Blaise Pascal

I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat. — Art Garfunkel

why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave? — Seneca.