Smutnoe Quotes & Sayings

You see how people get through their misfortunes, if they have but a heart to bear up against them, and do nothing that can lie on their conscience afterwards; and how suddenly one comes to be happy, just when one is beginning to think one never is to be happy again! ... who would have thought we should ever know what it is to be happy! Yet here we are all abroad once more! All at liberty! And may run, if we will, straight forward, from one end of the earth to the other, and back again without being stopped! May fly in the sea, or swim in the sky, or tumble over head and heels into the moon! For remember, my good friends, we have no lead in our consciences to keep us down! — Ann Radcliffe

This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self. — Edward De Bono

I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill ... But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money. — Tyra Banks

No empty handed man can lure a bird — Geoffrey Chaucer

You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee. — John Noble Holcomb

The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation. — Ray Oldenburg

Your heart is everything. Why else would God ask for it first? I mean, why not ask for your mind? Your soul? Instead, God asks for our hearts. — Rachel Van Dyken

To live - is that not enough? — D.T. Suzuki

But his hands are on my neck and in my hair and tracing my collarbone and it is wrong but it feels right, it feels like falling and I know the impact at the bottom will probably kill me, but I don't care anymore. — Kiersten White

It's hard enough to figure out how to live ... without worrying about what the hell's normal. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine. — Woody Allen