Uspomene Quotes & Sayings

Pig to man in a single hour," he said. "You're a reverse Circe. — Lauren Groff

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays. — Kapil Dev

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived. — Arthur Golden

I wouldn't say so. I've told people I'm a medieval historian when asked what I do. It freezes conversation. If one tells them one's a poet, one gets these odd looks which seem to say, "Well, what's he living off?" In the old days a man was proud to have in his passport, Occupation: Gentleman. Lord Antrim's passport simply said, Occupation: Peer - which I felt was correct. I've had a lucky life. I had a happy home, and my parents provided me with a good education. And my father was both a physician and a scholar, so I never got the idea that art and science were opposing cultures - both were entertained equally in my home. I cannot complain. I've never had to do anything I really disliked. Certainly I've had to do various jobs I would not have taken on if I'd had the money; but I've always considered myself a worker, not a laborer. So many people have jobs they don't like at all. I haven't, and I'm grateful for that. — W. H. Auden

We can never be happy, restful, or spiritually healthy till we become holy. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's impossible to be neutral when even doing nothing is a decision. — Lisa Cypers Kamen