Poenta Pjesme Quotes & Sayings

I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark. — Euan Uglow

Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the fighting temper of the Revolutionists at the proper heat were the boldest and most radical thinkers - men like Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson. — Charles A. Beard

None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine ... I think I understand them thoroughly. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know? — Shimon Peres

You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person. — JoBeth Williams

My respect for the law was diminishing with every exchange. Dickens was right. The law is an ass, and I was starting to think that people are asses as well. — Wendy Buonaventura

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I think our refusal to read {some} novels exactly corresponds with..our refusal to confront inconvenient facts of a changing world and our moral culpability in what our government has done in our name . . . While more novels are read than ever before--those are escapist novels--so as to forget what we need to remember. — Aleksandar Hemon

Punishment looks back. It focuses on making payment for wrongs done in the past. Christ's suffering was payment, for example, for our sin. Discipline, however, looks forward. The lessons we learn from discipline help us to not make the same mistakes again: "God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness" (Heb. 12:10). — Henry Cloud

I don't know what you may have seen fit to tell her, Venetia, but so far as I understand it you could think of nothing better to do than to beguile her with some farrago about wishing Damerel to strew rose-leaves for you to walk on!"
Damerel, who had resumed his seat, had been staring moodily into the fire, but at these words he looked up quickly. "Rose-leaves?" His eyes went to Venetia's face, wickedly quizzing her. "But my dear girl, at this season?"
"Be quiet, you wretch!" she said, blushing. — Georgette Heyer

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice. — George Santayana

The earth and sky are like two mirrors facing each other. — Marty Rubin

Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview — Jonathan Ive

On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival. — Rabindranath Tagore

A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. — Madeleine L'Engle