Petrushevskaya Quotes & Sayings

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. — Andrew Weil

Churches should not be directly involved in politics. — John Leo

When you have ADHD your home reflects our thought. disorganized and in disoray. And like with a disorganized house. you can only appologize for your disorganized brian so many time before it becomes exhausting. — Sarah Young

It was in a dream, though, that it happened, and dreams don't count. — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had. — Lenny Wilkens

The piano - that, too, was an adventure. A little girl tried to learn to play it. Her mother insisted, forced her to sit there and practice. Nothing came of it; stubbornness won out in the end, the stubbornness that protects us from the will of others, that defends our right to live our life the way we want. Even if it means life will turn out worse than anyone planned, will turn into a poor life - but it'll be one's own, however it is, even without music, even without talent. — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

For a man to be great, he must not dwell on small things, though he may enjoy them. — Joseph Smith Jr.

I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately. — Susan Orlean

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live. — Sarah Silverman

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place. — Lech Walesa

She keeps looking up, not meeting his eyes - the sign of a serious crush, by the way. — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me ... If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it. — Jodi Picoult

If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about. — Sarah Dessen

Find friends who ALIGN with your destiny & lose friends who ALIENATE you from destiny! — Brian Houston

On the night she died and they took her away, her husband collapsed, and in his sleep he heard her - she was there, and she lay her head down on the pillow next to him and said, "My love." And after that he slept happily, and at the funeral he was calm and dignified, though he'd lost a great deal of weight, and was honest and upright, and at the wake, when everyone had gathered at his apartment, he told them all that she had come to him and called him "My love." And everyone froze, because they knew what he said was true - and the photograph no longer hung over his desk. — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Old Milgrom pauses to console the girl and tells her she's not the only one who's clumsy, that she herself couldn't do anything when she was young - boil an egg or hem a diaper - and then she learned. Life taught her. — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

It's no secret, of course, that souls sometimes die within a person and are replaced by others - especially with age. — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

There was nothing but pain in store for her, yet she cried with happiness and couldn't stop. — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. — Isabel Allende

It may be a Mountain or a Tree, a River or a Bee ... learn to enjoy the little things in Life.-RVM — R.v.m.