Prilenia Quotes & Sayings

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done. — Jorge Luis Borges

A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work. — Henri Nouwen

He had an image in his mind of a gaggle of long-necked geese, all done up in petticoats and crinolines, sitting around a stuffy parlor and talking about him. — Stefan Bachmann

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. — D.H. Lawrence

Generosity is the vanity of giving. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money. — Armando Iannucci

It speaks of such integrity to refuse to pretend that you're doing well just to help other people deal with the fact that sometimes we face an impossible loss. — Anne Lamott

I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality. — Cyndi Lauper

Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is that a child dies every eight seconds from drinking contaminated water, and the sanitation trend is getting sharply worse, mostly because of the worldwide drift of the rural peasantry to urban slums. — Marq De Villiers

Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past. — C. K. Prahalad

Who understands war: the solders? the homeless ones? Mussolini? Or the leaders of the English and the Americans? No, nobody understands war, they only think they do. Maybe the earth that drinks up the blood understands it and says: How foolish is man. Of all the animals that lives upon me, he is the cleverest and the most foolish. — Erik Christian Haugaard

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction. — Clarice Lispector