Szilasi Beatrix Quotes & Sayings

If you always try to measure yourself with
money ... well, it's like counting backwards, the more you
keep on, the less you'll have to show for it. — Steven J. Carroll

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK. — Donald Fagen

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it. — Patrick O'Brian

Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance. — Barbara Castle

Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations. — Herb Kohl

As a writer you see the big picture and how you can tell as one character, how your storyline is going to meet up with all these other storylines. And as an actor you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details. — Richard Dormer

since it's obvious that not having this baby — Terry McMillan

I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work. — Jane Green

It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome. — Leo Tolstoy

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old. — Patricia Polacco

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends. — Benjamin Franklin

The wise begin with whys." Everyone wants to be happy, healthy, and successful, but wanting is rarely an effective strategy for getting. Those who overcome the temptations of mediocrity and achieve everything they want in life have an extraordinarily compelling why that drives them. They — Hal Elrod

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew. — Idries Shah

I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors. — Douglas Preston

I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in that religion or this religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness ... — Dalai Lama XIV