Pravdurn Quotes & Sayings

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time. — Vincent Cassel

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all. — Khaled Hosseini

What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes. — Annie Besant

Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object. — Peter Schjeldahl

Gansey thought of how strange it was to know these two young men so well and yet to not know them at all. Both so much more difficult and so much better than when he'd first met them. Was that what life did to them all? Chiselled them into harder, truer versions of themselves? — Maggie Stiefvater

Which takes more courage: to rigidly and inflexibly defend a principle, or to demonstrate a sense of perspective and willingness to compromise or walk away from a senseless argument? — Thomas J. Harbin

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article. — Caroline Kennedy

To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self). — Hazrat Inayat Khan

God has to work in a man before He can work through a man. — Leonard Ravenhill

Neal lowered his eyebrows, tenderly, like he was untangling something that might fall apart in his hands. He opened his mouth to speak, but Georgie leaned in — Rainbow Rowell

A stock (pile) of money doesn't make you any richer than it makes exchange easier — Amah Lambert

It's bizarre, but as disgusting and evil and terrible as the Wolfman is, I can't help but feel he's unable to control himself. It seems to me he makes up bizarre excuses to make it okay for him to kill and rape, because he can't stop himself from killing and raping. Whether born or made, the Wolfman is more creature than human. He's a monster. — Carolyn Lee Adams

I said everyone looks happy. That was kinda my point. If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac. — Harlan Coben