Sekejap Saja Quotes & Sayings

There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic. — Susan Jeffers

But the dreadful thing about wicked ideas is that bit by bit wicked minds can become accustomed to them. — Alexandre Dumas

There were a great many other such tableaux. As Martial had predicted, bears featured prominently in most of them. A temple thief was made to reenact the role of the robber Laureolus, made famous by the ancient plays of Ennius and Naevius; he was nailed to a cross and then subjected to the attack of the bears. A freedman who had killed his former master was made to put on a Greek chlamys and go walking though a stage forest populated by cavorting satyrs and nymphs, like Orpheus lost in the woods; when one of the satyrs played a shrill tune on his pipes, the trees dispersed and the man was subject to an attack by bears. An arsonist was made to strap on wings in imitation of Daedalus, ascend a high platform, and then leap off; the wings actually carried him aloft for a short distance, a remarkable sight, until he plunged into an enclosure full of bears and was torn to pieces. — Steven Saylor

Quite a bit of his swearing was pure nautical genius. — Michael G. Manning

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God. — Willie Stargell

Maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together. — Lauren DeStefano

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68) — Brene Brown

I envy the dead. — William Mulholland

He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die.
He's going to die anyway.
He's so scared, Papa.
The man squatted and looked at him. I'm scared, he said. Do you understand? I'm scared.
The boy didn't answer. He just sat there with his head down, sobbing.
You're not the one who has to worry about everything.
The boy said something but he couldn't understand him. What? He said.
He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one. — Cormac McCarthy

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you. — John Owen

The future offers everything. Reach out and take whatever you want. — Rosie Thomas

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen. — John Keats