Valdas Dambrauskas Quotes & Sayings

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely. — Francis Bacon

Man is a wretched creature and death is a certainty - Thomas Bernhard — Thomas Bernhard

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist. — Kristin Hannah

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness. — Hesiod

China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little. — Henry Paulson

Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom. — Soul Dancer

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds. — Lord Acton

To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical. "To illustrate a principle ," says Bagehot , "you must exaggerate much and you must omit much." As to the quantity of absolute truth in a thought : it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind they are interesting and they stimulate. — Eric Hoffer

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs. — Sendhil Mullainathan

Stop waiting for someone else to say that you count, that you matter, that you have worth, that you have a voice, a place, that you are called. Don't you know, darling? The One who knit you together in your mother's womb is the one singing these words over you, you are chosen. — Sarah Bessey

I think 'American Pie' is great. — Paul Dano