Scumpa Viata Quotes & Sayings

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced. — Shirley Manson

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately, you are always bad before you can get a little better. — David Rakoff

Does not want to decide. They visit Scotland, New York City, Santiago. More than once they put on winter coats and visit the moon. "Can't you feel how lightweight we are, Marie? You can move by hardly twitching a muscle!" He sets her in his wheeled desk chair and pants as he whirls her in circles until she cannot laugh anymore for the pain of it. — Anthony Doerr

It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious. — Vladimir Putin

I'm praying for a misdemeanor — Bobby Bowden

you have to be willing to give your customer-service staff the freedom to work without a script or specific instructions. If you don't dare do this, you have to ask yourself why they were hired in the first place if you don't trust their judgement. And if you don't show them that level of confidence, you shouldn't expect much commitment from them in return. — Lars Kolind

'White Collar' is really a unique family where people kind of all get each other, and they're all on the same page. I was really fortunate because when I got there, I kind of just immediately fit right in with everybody. — Gloria Votsis

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle — Carol Tavris

But a mind of usefulness and ingenuity seemed to furnish him with constant employment within. — Jane Austen

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a billion years, Earth will become a second Venus. — Randall Munroe

We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers. — Edward Snowden

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. — Gerald Brenan

How predictable; As if appearance is all that matters for people who can't see with anything other than their eyes. — Donna Lynn Hope

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion. — Blaise Pascal