Teplyakova Quotes & Sayings

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. — Janwillem Van De Wetering

Spanking girls and being a girl receiving a spanking captures the feeling of falling from grace, that beyond the pleasure enhanced by the pain is a sense that you are being just a little bit wicked. — Chloe Thurlow

How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people. — Alice Tisdale Hobart

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. — Oriana Fallaci

What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway. — Henry Rollins

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board. — Jodi Picoult

Divorce is a death. It is the death of a relationship. It is the death of your dreams. You have to start all over. — Abigail Trafford

Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another and fight for maneuvering space. All parties are equally determined to get the right-of-way
insist on it. They swerve away at the last possible moment, giving scant inches to spare. The victor goes forwards, no time for a victory grin, already engaging in another contest of will. Saigon traffic is Vietnamese life, a continuous charade of posturing, bluffing, fast moves, tenacity and surrenders. — Andrew X. Pham

Longevity is not whether or not you break, it is how well you recover and repair when you do. — Mehmet C. Oz

Feeling free of full & empty, feeling here but also there,
Neither or but simply both, a universe within, one single stare. — Jay Woodman

There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the people who accomplished the extraordinary feat of making mankind's greatest achievements look dull, then making it impossible to repeat them.Yet what man has done man can aspire to. About light I am in the dark. — Benjamin Franklin

His wife had also studied art in her hometown, and she could paint, but depending on such work for her livelihood was just not possible. As far as appearances went, she was definitely a real beauty. When she was young, she looked a little like Gong Li, but now that she was middle-aged, she had put on weight and gradually taken on more of a bell-shaped look, resembling Li Siqin. But no matter what, a wife always looks better than her balding, broadbellied husband. — Chew Kok Chang

The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling. — H.L. Mencken

I think that, for me, my favorite thing to do is perform standup onstage. Everything else I do is for the exposure to do more stand-up onstage, and for the money, and for the health insurance. — Jen Kirkman

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know. — Lauryn Hill