Valdas Sutkus Quotes & Sayings

It's a bad job," he said, when I had done; "but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and we mustn't be scared by the common lot. If we failed to hold our own, because that equal foot at all men's doors was heard knocking somewhere, every object in this world would slip from us. No! Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race! — Charles Dickens

I want the last cheque I write to bounce. — Chuck Feeney

If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. — Veronica Roth

I like you as much as I like much prettier sane girl. — Tom Pollock

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing. — Douglas Adams

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Frugality is a handsome income. — Desiderius Erasmus

For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful. — Salvador Dali

Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children. — Mark Helprin

I use your trust in me to compel that will to action. That's leadership. — Robert J. Crane

By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives. — Stephen Covey

That the objective world would exist even if there existed no conscious being certainly seems at the first blush to be unquestionable because it can be thought in the abstract, without bringing to light the contradiction which it carries within it. But if we desire to realize this abstract thought, that is, to reduce it to ideas of perception, from which alone (like everything abstract) it can have content and truth, and if accordingly we try to imagine an objective world without a knowing subject, we become aware that what we then imagine is in truth the opposite of what we intended, is in fact nothing else than the process in the intellect of a knowing subject who perceives an objective world, is thus exactly what we desired to exclude. For this perceptible and real world is clearly a phenomenon of the brain; therefore there lies a contradiction in the assumption that as such it ought to exist independently of all brains. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Actually, at home, my parents simply referred to him as "bro. — Julie Murphy