Sjetiti Quotes & Sayings

In quiet places, reason abounds. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. — Norman Douglas

It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees. — James Fenton

His OFELLUS in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and who had practiced his own precepts of economy for several years in the British capital. He assured Johnson, who, I suppose, was then meditating to try his fortune in London, but was apprehensive of the expence, 'that thirty pounds a year was enough to enable a man to live there without being contemptible. He allowed ten pounds for cloaths and linen. He said a man might live in a garret at eighteen-pence a week; few people would inquire where he lodged; and if they did, it was easy to say, "Sir, I am to be found at such a place." By spending three-pence in a coffee-house, he might be for some hours every day in very good company; he might dine for six-pence, breakfast on bread and milk for a penny, and do without supper. On clean-shirt day he went abroad, and paid visits. — James Boswell

Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to. — Olympe De Gouges

If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes. — Edward Teller

In real life you get out of the shower naked, so why wouldn't you do it on screen? It's just a normal thing. — Nicholas Hoult

I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer. — Rand Paul

Her ability to hear music in the silence. — Gayle Forman

Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows. — James C. Dobson

North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.' — Conan O'Brien

My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything. — Venus Williams

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. — Joseph Joubert