Utenos Quotes & Sayings

What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself.
What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break." He torments himself continually. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

This is the secret to mastering any discipline: as you conquer one, you'll find it easier to tackle another. — Jeff Goins

A goal should make you feel excited when you think about it. — Debasish Mridha

You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know I'm real, and then you're real too. — Shailene Woodley

Living a religious sexual lifestyle is tantamount to living a lie.
Religion distorts our sexuality when the majority of religious people live one life for the public and another in private. It can be as simple as living as a "happily married" couple when you are both miserable with your sex life. — Darrel Ray

Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been. — Haruki Murakami

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out. — James A. Michener

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split. — Stephen King

Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and the capabilities off what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power. — Thomas Sowell

Never mistake legibility for communication. — David Carson

With your permission you give us more information about you, your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches. We don't need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less guess what you're thinking about. — Eric Schmidt

You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it. — William Thorsell

I have known kings and criminals. I prefer criminals. They cheat, steal and betray, but at least you don't have to worship them while they do it. — Lynda S. Robinson

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them ... I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. — John Milton