Urbach Russia Quotes & Sayings

Free is the person who lives as he wishes and cannot be coerced, impeded or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires and never has to experience what he would rather avoid. — Epictetus

During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon. — Jennifer Harrison

There is an end to everything on earth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church. — William Lyon Phelps

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser. — Justin Long

This is not real suffering, she tells herself. this is only a matter of reprogramming her picture of the future. Of understanding that the line of descendancy is not continuous but arbitrary. — Anthony Doerr

I love doing deals and operating companies. — Michael Heisley

Familiarity isn't always a good thing ... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up. — Karl Hyde

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up ... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do ... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started. — Michael Morpurgo

We may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects ... and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness that springs from social cooperation and loving interaction ... the majority of us live far below our potential, because of the oppressive nature of most societies. — John Blacking

it's a fitting salute to a heroine who rose over bad costumes and unflattering cinematography (remember those days of relentless soft-focus?) to become the sole reason many of us watched Hindi films at one time. And all these years on, Madhuri Dixit still makes it look as easy as ek, do, teen. — Baradwaj Rangan

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them. — Vivien Leigh

Conservatives are now largely fighting rearguard actions. They are trying to reassemble a world that never really existed quite as they imagine it (and to the extent that it did, it existed at the expense of all the people - the vast majority of us - forced to disappear, into the closet, the kitchen, segregated space, invisibility and silence). Thanks — Rebecca Solnit