Varvara Harmon Quotes & Sayings

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him? — Henrik Ibsen

He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice touched a key in his soul. He didn't understand life. He had no conception of why he had been born into the world. As he saw it, anyone to whose lot fell this adventure, the purpose of which was unknown but the end of which was annihilation, that person was absolved from all responsibility and had the right to do as he pleased - for example, to lie full length in the street and begin to moan without any reason - without deserving the slightest censure. But precisely because he considered his life as a whole an incomprehensible thing, he understood its little details individually - every person without exception, every elevated and lowly point of view, every concept - and those he assimilated at once. — Dezso Kosztolanyi

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present. — Dirk Benedict

Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first. — Robin Sharma

What had been left of the eighty-nine people aboard hadn't looked much different from a Hamburger Helper casserole. — Stephen King