Staveness Quotes & Sayings

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights. — Liv Ullmann

Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand - when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvellous pictures the charm I had, till now, never failed to find - all was eerie and dreary; the giants were gaunt goblins, the pigmies malevolent and fearful imps, Gulliver a most desolate wanderer in most dread and dangerous regions. I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart. — Charlotte Bronte

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. — Catherine Deneuve

In all ages of the world, some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue.1 - Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Labor, 1847 — Dinesh D'Souza

FEBRUARY IN SALINAS is likely to be damp and cold and full of miseries. The heaviest rains fall then, and if the river is going to rise, it rises then. February of 1915 was a year heavy with water. — John Steinbeck

When creatively passionate people get together to start a company, the energy and camaraderie is really pretty stimulating. — Lee Clow

A few glasses of wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron. — Joe Abercrombie

It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I have a bad habit of playing little emotional games with men. When they date me it's cool in the beginning, we do our thing in the first month, and then I send them on a rollercoaster ride to hell. — JWoww

I want to be the team that creates the action more than be the reactor. — George Karl

You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years. — Criss Angel