Savarina Quotes & Sayings

Our megatechnic culture, based as it is on the strange supposition that subjective malice has no reality and that evils do not exist, except in the sense of reparable mechanical defects, has proved itself incompetent to take on such responsibilities. — Lewis Mumford

The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success. — Albert Einstein

I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try. — Emily Giffin

I enjoy feeding every Brain with my words. — Maryann Gestwicki

Regret at telling her about the dragon, about the words, settled into his gut. It left him feeling too exposed, like his nerves sat atop his skin. — Laura Kaye

Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear. — Marilyn Suzanne Miller

If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books written about them. — Janet Malcolm

I've learned not to worry about what might come next. — Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us (Danticat 19). — Edwidge Danticat

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative. — Hildegard Goss-Mayr

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman. — Jimmy Carter

The SpecOps dress code stated that our apparel should be 'dignified' but in Cordelia's case they had obviously stretched a point. — Jasper Fforde

Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. — Tobin Bell