Vankovka Quotes & Sayings

And the thing about threats is that most of them are empty, nothing more than smoke in the breeze. — Collin Henderson

Only great pain, the long, slow pain that takes its time ... compels us to descend to our ultimate depths ... I doubt that such pain makes us "better"; but I know it makes us more profound ... In the end, lest what is most important remain unsaid: from such abysses, from such severe sickness, one returns newborn, having shed one's skin ... with merrier senses, with a second dangerous innocence in joy, more childlike and yet a hundred times subtler than one has ever been before. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence. — Kent Haruf

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence. — Aristotle.

I just want to take advantage of every day that I'm in the lineup. — Andre Ethier

truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.' " "More Oscar Wilde?" "Galileo, the father of modern astronomy. Another — Kami Garcia

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other. — Sheldon Vanauken

Doubt crouched over his shoulder, ready to take him by the throat, whispering in his ear, You are an old man. An old, old man. — Eowyn Ivey

Donald Trump has a great campaign slogan: 'A complex world demands complex hair.' — David Letterman

Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover. — Lu Xun