Sinitsina Quotes & Sayings

There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor achievement.
This is the final truth. — Ramana Maharshi

I am happy with what I've done. — Hanoi Hannah

Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can't really remember the difference between what's real and what you've created in your head? — Edie Sedgwick

If you want a long-term relationship that doesn't require a lot of work, I say, get a dog. They love you no matter what. But when it comes to humans, there's no secret; you really have to appreciate the person every single day. — Denis Leary

This tradition argues that education is not just about the passive assimilation of facts and cultural traditions, but about challenging the mind to become active, competent, and thoughtfully critical in a complex world. This model of education supplanted an older one in which children sat still at desks all day and simply absorbed, and then regurgitated, the material that was brought their way. — Martha C. Nussbaum

If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life. — Anthony Hopkins

Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out. — Kevin Drum

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum. — Karen Blixen

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water. — Winston Churchill

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way. — Peter Kreeft

Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman. — Paullina Simons

The Mob essentially created the term 'stand-up comic' - according to eighty-six-year-old comedian Dick Curtis: 'The Outfit used to manage fighters. A stand-up fighter is a guy that is a puncher. A stand-up guy was a guy who was tough and you could depend on. The Outfit managed fighters and they managed clubs that booked comics, so the term found its way into the lexicon of nightclubs. A guy who just stood there and punched jokes - joke, joke, joke - he was a stand-up comic. — Kliph Nesteroff

Books are the carriers of civilization ... They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. — Barbara W. Tuchman