Rokas Gustys Quotes & Sayings

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. — Judith Guest

A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life ... he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul. — Alvin R. Dyer

Simplicity is the strength of the film. It is an emotion-packed film with simple things knitted together beautifully. — Lara Dutta

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry. — Neil Gaiman

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they
wish to seem unusually pious. — Baruch Spinoza

I've always wanted to do this, so it really is a dream come true. — Jeri Ryan

One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function. — Paul Beatty

People have the absolute right to preach and to think and to say whatever they believe, and at the same time those beliefs can't be used as the basis for denying other people their equal rights and their equal freedom. — Chris Christie

Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks. — Laure Junot, Duchess Of Abrantes

Old things are passed away;
Behold, all things are become new. — Bible Verses

Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one. — Nick Hornby

You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you. — Alice Hoffman

Born to fly, endless possibilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old. — Al Jarreau