Tervezni N Met L Quotes & Sayings

Sitti knows that modern-day wars are fought over simple things, like the length and fit of a shirt - the shorter the sleeve, the greater the misfortune. Many times she wants to ask the one-hundred-year-old fig tree in the village center what it is like to be born from nothing and grow into something. She wants to know what it is like to bear fruit every year and not expect anything in return. She wants to know what it is like to be respected for what she could give - no more and no less. — Sadiqua Hamdan

The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion. — H.G.Wells

There comes a time in every man's life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him. — Steven Hardesty

How much simpler it would have been to become a beast than to live through this, Valerie thought. — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

They were waiting for Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova, known in society as le terrible dragon, a lady celebrated not for her wealth or distinction, but for her straightforward speech and the frank simplicity of her manners. — Leo Tolstoy

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa. — Neil Peart

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut. — Josh Lucas

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us ... — John Bunyan

When I tell you that you're beautiful, I don't just mean your appearance. I mean all of you; who and what you are, is beautiful. — Steve Maraboli

The river plunged down in a long waterfall, plashing into several rocky pools on its way down the cliff. — Alison Croggon

After Gmail, if you have AOL, people are like, 'Are you still with this?' What does it matter what e-mail you have? — Amy Heckerling

Social support is not the same as merely being in the presence of others. The critical issue is reciprocity: being truly heard and seen by the people around us, feeling that we are held in someone else's mind and heart. For our physiology to calm down, heal, and grow we need a visceral feeling of safety. No doctor can write a prescription for friendship and love: These are complex and hard-earned capacities. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk