Valoarea Punctului Quotes & Sayings

Somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down. — Elizabeth Bowen

There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens. — Ann Hood

America is the brokest country in history. We owe more money than anyone has ever owed anyone. And Obama and Reid say relax, that's no reason not to spend more - because the world hasn't yet concluded we have no intention of paying it back. When they do, the dollar will collapse. — Mark Steyn

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other hobbies. — Sam Altman

We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often. — Madeleine Sophie Barat

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. — Toni Morrison

Peace is a road to happiness and the future.
War is a road to destruction and death. — Debasish Mridha

From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential. — R.D. Laing

You want the truth? Those two years you could have ended your life, but you didn't because you wanted to live. You weren't looking for a way out, Jay. You were looking for a way back in. — Nicole Reed

Not only should the conventional "rules" of marriage not apply necessarily to individual wives, but the euphoria of Phase One is old news. We being to learn that while nothing is as good as it seems, nothing is quite as dire as it appears. — Susan Shapiro Barash

Any one is able to acheive his dream if only he consider every obstacle he face as a way to his purpos — Hiba Bouchallouf

To reject any vast group of one's cultural ancestors in the cause of some current theory is not just arrogance; it's posthumous mass murder. It's the same kind of thinking that makes genocide possible. The masses (albeit the dead masses) and the pathetic little lives they lived are irrelevant compared to this greater purpose we have at hand. Write them out of the record. They never existed.
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One could not judge things by the brief span of one's own lifetime. That was at the core of modern arrogance: only my lifetime counts. My lifetime is 'forever.' Time before it and time after it do not exist. Everything of importance must come to pass in my lifetime. This is what drives the frenzy for change. — Tony Hendra

could not be expected to part with them. — Philipp Meyer

As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues. — Mike Lowell

We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date. — Michael Lewis