Prusiana Quotes & Sayings

Despite the universality of this change, which we're all buffeted by, there is a single, seemingly small change that I'll be most sorry about. It will sound meaningless, but: One doesn't see teenagers staring into space anymore. Gone is the idle mind of the adolescent. — Michael Harris

We are all built differently. Some guys are more powerful. Some guys are very tall. I'm not very tall, so I rely on quickness. — Henrik Lundqvist

Everyone owes nature a death. — Sigmund Freud

Molecular genetic evidence (see Chapter 10 for the nature of this kind of evidence) shows that the closest living cousins of whales are hippos, then pigs, then ruminants. Even more surprisingly, the molecular evidence shows that hippos are more closely related to whales than they are to the cloven-hoofed animals — Richard Dawkins

the woman he would grow old and cranky with. — Deborah Fletcher Mello

By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if they did they would live elsewhere. — E.B. White

My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future. — Alexandre Dumas

Alice: I simply must get through!
Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible.
Alice: You mean impossible?
Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible. — Lewis Carroll

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy. — Jane Gardam

The power of creativity does not just lie in an artist's work, but also in how he or she continues to create regardless of the obstacles life places in the way. — Sharon Louden

I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered at how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. — Donald Miller

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure. — Barton Gellman

Fame without Jesus Christ is a shame hereafter . — Osunsakin Adewale