Stanislava Peikova Quotes & Sayings

There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep. — Sarah Rees Brennan

In the course of this one day, several things have taken a decisive step forward. The gears have turned forward with a click. And gears that have turned forward never turn back. That is one of the world's rules. — Haruki Murakami

I go to Scotland maybe three times a year, and I love it. When I'm at home, I feel at home, I feel myself, I feel connected. — Gerard Butler

Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior. — Ludwig Von Mises

Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

A condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

the Archimedean point where the lever can be applied." At — Barbara W. Tuchman

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary. — Joel Salatin

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary. — Wallace D. Wattles

I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart. — Tarryn Fisher

The Welshman allowed it to eat into the vitals of his visitors, — Mark Twain