Uzimanje Quotes & Sayings

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind. — Walter Lippmann

They, the women, were like the gargoyles, Mattie thought. Respected in words, but hidden from view of those who ran the city and managing to live in the darkness, in the secret interstices of life. — Ekaterina Sedia

You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray. — Peter Kreeft

Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag. — Rita Rudner

It was the truest thing she said that night, as we both lied to each other. — Marieke Nijkamp

It was time to leave. He was insufferable, had toilet problems, looked demented to begin with, and now he was the accomplice to a cat killer. Yet did I leave? No, I sat there. And I thought, What has happened to me? Why am I not rising up off the sofa? Why am I not leaving? — Augusten Burroughs

She would have done anything for Gabriel, the man shh spent the night with in the woods, if he' d give her even a single indication that he wanted her. She would have descended to Hell and searched for him, looking until she found him.She would have stormed the gates and dragged him back. She would have been Sam to his Frodo and followed him into the bowels ofMount Doom. — Sylvain Reynard

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action. — Jean-Paul Sartre

But cycling is less a hobby than it is a discipline with the potential to transform you. It brings balance. — BikeSnobNYC

The universe had something to do with it, didn't it?" "Sure, but you were the originator of this. — Jeff Brown

In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals. — Ben Lerner