Shevchenko Monuments Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education. — Callan McAuliffe

Love has always fascinated me. [ ... ] And gosh, I've never known something to be so gleefully wonderful and soul-crushingly exhausting before. — Carrie Hope Fletcher

It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms. — Simone Weil

Once very smart people are paid huge sums of money to exploit the flaws in the financial system, they have the spectacularly destructive incentive to screw the system up further, or to remain silent as they watch it being screwed up by others. The cost, in the end, is a tangled-up financial system. Untangling it requires acts of commercial heroism - and even then the fix might not work. There was simply too much more easy money to be made by elites if the system worked badly than if it worked well. The whole culture had to want to change. "We know how to cure this," as Brad had put it. "It's just a matter of whether the patient wants to be treated. — Michael Lewis

I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character. — Martha Plimpton

It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature — Tennessee Williams

We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice; and thence, besides souring and spoiling the conversation, is productive of disgusts and, perhaps enmities where you may have occasion for friendship. I had caught it by reading my father's books of dispute about religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinborough. — Benjamin Franklin

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn. — T.H. White

You're all angles and elbows right now." I gave him a sour look. "You certainly know how to make a girl feel sexy."
He grinned. "Well, how about: If anyone can make an oversize polyester uniform look hot, it's you. — Diana Rowland

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday. — Georg Buchner

Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best. — George Gascoigne

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen. — Harold Brodkey

To compensate for this undercurrent of uselessness, we pretend we're all terribly important and that we have something to bring to the world. — Ruby Wax

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt — Mark Twain

Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you — Leyla Zana