Varitseja Quotes & Sayings

Pay attention to what you're saying. Are you blessing your life? Or are you cursing it? — Joel Osteen

The biggest threat to American power in the long run is the persistent decline in its middle class standard of living today. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.' — Jerry Saltz

A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier. — Ashley Greene

I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness. — Jonathan Safran Foer

My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them. — Kirk Douglas

To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion. — Isaac Watts

I still think too much about the mothers And ask what is man born of woman. He curls himself up and protects his head While he is kicked by heavy boots; on fire and running, He burns with bright flame; a bulldozer sweeps him into a clay pit. Her child. Embracing a teddy bear. Conceived in ecstasy. — Czeslaw Milosz

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating. — Taylor Schilling

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves. — Horace Mann

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me. — Ann Landers

A puzzle with a solution is a game. A puzzle without a solution is a work of art. — Marty Rubin

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. — Jean-Henri Fabre