Petkevicius V Quotes & Sayings

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. — Simone Weil

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out. — Johann Gottfried Herder

Ann put the oven to heat. She washed the lamb under the tap, turning it around to clean the entire leg. Then it was dried with a paper towel, stretched out on the cutting board to be hammered flat, and rubbed with salt and rosemary she took from the kitchen window. She waited for the oven to reach two hundred. The cleaned scent of the meat and the clatter of the water in the skink, the branches of rosemary, the dogs finding each other's ears in the evening, the children being called indoors, servants standing on the road for the Indian bus, and the rising heat of the oven against the remaining heat of the day made her aware of her own happiness. This happiness was like the sea wind when the temperature of the water and the land reversed and everything was free in new darkness. — Imraan Coovadia

Women like to be affirmed verbally, just as men like to be affirmed verbally. They tend to pull away from dating partners who do not give affirmation. Lack of verbal affirmation is interpreted as lack of love. — Gary Chapman

War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. — Woodrow Wilson

Understanding, perhaps, but understanding is just a word. No one can understand another person unless he is that other person. — Jose Saramago

I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever. — Ryan Sheckler

It gets you thinking about all the parts in a story we never see"
he cleared his throat
"the parts around the edges. You bring someone like that boy so alive before us and there he is set loose in our world so that we can't stop thinking of him. But then the report is over, the boy disappears. He was just a boy in a story and we never know the ending, we never get to close the book. It makes you wonder what happens to the people in them after the story stops
all the stories you've reported for instance. Where are they all now? — Sarah Blake

You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run. — Azim Premji

Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they never play again, but that's when they really start playing. — John Madden

A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that. — Joan Jett

We've been conditioned to think of work as drudgery, a chore you endure in exchange for a paycheck. And this is a problem. When — Jeff Goins

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers. — Joseph Nye