Unistiteljka Quotes & Sayings

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue ... — J.R.R. Tolkien

He had strange eyes-they make me think of a two-way mirror. Like you could feel somebody on the other side watching you, but the only reflections you saw was your own. — S.E. Hinton

Making a lot of noise was considered essential for a good wedding, as keeping quiet would have been seen as suggesting that there was something shameful about the event. — Jung Chang

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. — Publilius Syrus

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories. — Jimmy Breslin

You can't argue with them, because they live by an entirely different logic. — Emily St. John Mandel

For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother. — Kara Swisher

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul. — William Wilberforce

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually. — David Hockney

I am more lost from the world than anyone has ever been.
More lost than people who lived here before here had a name.
Those people understood stars.
The still felt north in their bodies.
I don't have any idea what happened to north.
My life so far has made me stupid, helpless, dependent.
I am not like the people who came before.
They knew how to feed themselves, how to give birth by squatting in the roots of a tree.
They were lost, but lost didn't matter back then, since there was no found.
They could wander these woods before tribes, before people even.
Following deer or bears or who knows what.
The sort of lost that doesn't exist anymore anywhere. — Samantha Hunt

Americans think they're the leader of the world and yet can say that they're putting their economic interests ahead of the lives of - quite possibly - tens of millions of people who over the next 50 years will die because of floods or storms or tropical diseases or whatever. I guess that sort of thing makes me angry. — Peter Singer

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. — Emily Dickinson

I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head. — Frank McCourt

A frog in a well does not know the great sea. — Chris Bradford