Pyotr Mamonov Quotes & Sayings

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that it means thinking well, whatever one thinks, and therefore acting well, whatever one does. — Antonio Gramsci

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race. — Richard Baxter

I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M. — Anita Shreve

Memories make us who we are," he said. "Without them, we are nothing. — Melissa Grey

Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes. — Thurman Arnold

If we are filled with anger and bitterness, or insist on complaining and blaming God, things tend to turn out badly. — Stormie O'martian

I shrug and shuffle my toe across the carpet in front of me, feeling silly. "So? It's a compliment being like you."
All the humor evaporates from his face and his honey-brown eyes. Within seconds he has me in his arms and he hugs me like I'm the most important thing in the world to him. "Don't ever change, Callie Lawrence," he whispers in my hair. "Promise me you won't. — Jessica Sorensen

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was ... — Louis L'Amour

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do — Linus Torvalds

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it. — Joyce Carol Oates

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain. — LaToya Jackson