To3240xsbd Quotes & Sayings

It took man 250,000 years to transcend the hunting pack. It will not take him so long to transcend the nation. — J.B.S. Haldane

I concede that a bad romantic novel is embarrassing and indefensible. So is a bad so-called realistic novel. (And it is usually pretentious into the bargain which is insufferable.) But a good romantic novel is a heart-warming thing which strikes a responsive chord in those who are happy and offers a certain lifting of the spirits to those who are not. — Mary Burchell

Millions of people believe themselves 'doomed' to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they believe they have no control. They are the creators of their own 'misfortunes' because of this negative belief, which is picked up by the subconscious mind and translated into its physical equivalent. — Napoleon Hill

The only person I could trust
was Mom.
Mom . Who I'd never see again
unless I
aced these tests. And all I had to do was
be a good little an droid. Strong .
Focused.
Emotion free. — Debra Driza

That last phrase, the elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type. I had something to learn. — Elena Ferrante

Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese. — Geoffrey Chaucer

The focus of your presentation is the audience. You are missing the point if you focus on a product or your company. — Luis Cubero

Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my family is healthy and happy. I'm financially ok and I do what I love for a living. That's what I think, and I think god, how did I get so lucky. — Angelina Jolie

Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at publication. We need to do things without expecting benefits in return. The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it's in the curving paths that the best things are found ... We must love the useless, because there is beauty in uselessness. — Lygia Fagundes Telles

I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost. — Mario Testino

I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with
such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for
this reason, the better. — Vladimir Lenin

Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? — Roland Barthes