Shaant Avanian Quotes & Sayings

Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it. — Laurence J. Peter

I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are de-activated. Perhaps the greater the amount of money to be made, the greater the deactivation of the system that regulates ethical behaviour. — Semir Zeki

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live. — Angela Davis

At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write. — David Bergen

It will make her stronger."
"She was strong enough! — Melina Marchetta

Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is. — Lou Reed

Alone and lonely are two different words.
- Get it?
Different alone is nothing, lonely is like disease you get it and there isn't getting rid off it. — Deyth Banger

Don't ever put yourself in that position again, do you understand me?

I can't promise that, I whispered quietly. I'd rather do it than lose you. Don't you understand how important you are to me? — Arielle Caldwell

Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona — Karen Marie Moning

Bella." He strocked my face anxiously. "I'm not going anywhere. I'll be right here as long as you need me."
"Do you swear you won't leave me?" I whispered. I tried to control the gasping, at least. My ribs were throbbing.
He put his hands on either side of my face and brought his face close to mine. His eyes were wide and serious. "I swear. — Stephenie Meyer

Smaller companies are often more homogenous. Don't simply increase your diversity because of the social pressure to do so. Instead, realize that hiring a more diverse team will give you a whole new repertoires of innovative ideas. And then develop a strategy for effectively using the diversity of your team. — David Livermore

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson. — Wynter Gordon

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives. — Imogen Cunningham

The train could be stopped with a red flag, but by ordinary it appeared out of the devastated hills with apparitionlike suddenness and wailing like a banshee, athward and past that little less-than-village like a forgotten bead from a broken string. — William Faulkner

In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job. — Matt Taibbi