Utrennyaya Pochta Quotes & Sayings

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

She had a sadness that was so deep, but it still could turn to light in a second, and when I saw her smile I wondered what it would be like to make her smile. I thought ... I thought it would be like the discovery of smiling. — Laini Taylor

There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear that there is no passion there at all, and that if they let go they would simply remain where they are, foolish and unmoved; and they could bear that least of all. Living a life of iron control lets them pretend to themselves that only by the mightiest effort of will can they hold great passions at bay. — Philip Pullman

For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free. — Epictetus

Always be comic in a tragedy — G.K. Chesterton

You know what I think, Ari? I think Mexicans don't like me. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

After the economic 9/11, we will face a new world order. — Nick Clegg

We find all kinds of species that have taken up a second chromosome or a third one from somewhere, adding thousands of new traits in a second to that species. So, people who think of evolution as just one gene changing at a time have missed much of biology. — Craig Venter

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews. — Laurence Housman