Sostenga In English Quotes & Sayings

You can't always be the jokester and the doormat. — Manny Montana

How could a person be caught that way, in an instant, by a glance, the lift of an eyebrow, the curve of an arm? But he was. — Margaret Atwood

What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash. — Adyashanti

What makes you wise is not what you learn, but what you practice. What makes you wealthy is not what you earn, but what you invest. So, invest in what to practice, and practice what to invest. — Michael Peshkam

The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It is to keep the government from running the Church. But it is not to keep Christian principles out of the government. — Thomas Jefferson

Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them. — Eraldo Banovac

She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have her paintbox and her water cup within reach. Anna didn't use an easel. Easels seemed to her an altogether too assertive aid, too obvious. She liked to work as unobtrusively as possible, the paper spread on a board in her lap, close to her hand. — Tove Jansson

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge. — Anthony Minghella

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short. — Gyorgy Ligeti

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. — Arthur Machen

Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling. Sometimes she thought that she might have cranked it all the way up and broken the dial before the music had even started. — Alice Pung