Sakaratmak Quotes & Sayings

He saw clearly, immediately, that the man didn't care about the gift's value, didn't care about the gift even, but cared profoundly for the act of receiving as though the gift were a tribute, a confirmation of his self, his being, his reality. He found no pleasure in what he was taking but in the act of taking itself. — Ninotchka Rosca

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic. — Viktor E. Frankl

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out. — Naomi Campbell

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.' — Joyce Meyer

If a beautiful women expressed interest in me and my company, I don't really probe their motivations. Call me shallow. — Hugh Hefner

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek. — Herbert Simon

Don't put the material first, for you have to live with yourself a long, long while! Become acquainted with yourself. Know yourself and the relationship to the Creative Forces. — Edgar Cayce

What is needed to attain happiness is not a comfortable life, but a heart in love, such as Christ's. — Dario Castrillon Hoyos

As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to participate actively in the work of our press. — Leonid Brezhnev

The heavens may be far from humane, but I'd had about all I could take. So — Bohumil Hrabal

I'm not in the mood to die. — C.D. Reiss

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple. — Emma Watson

Like many doctors, I was frankly traumatized by some of the experiences I had early on in my career. When you lean over a patient in an emergency room, trying to bring a dead body back to life, you are entirely focused on the job at hand. On the other side of a thin curtain, you can hear that person's husband or wife howling and wailing, knowing that the person they loved and lived with for fifty years is dying, begging the staff to do all they can, phoning their children, struggling to speak through tears to form the words and communicate the horror, telling them to come, quickly. I have memories from cubicles that I will never be able to deal with, and they upset me even now. — Ben Goldacre

A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent. — Paulo Coelho