Vasaras Darbs Quotes & Sayings

How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are. — L. Ron Hubbard

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue. — Henry Fielding

Remember to be as smart as you are. — Judd Nelson

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that. — Ann Beattie

We understood each other on other levels of madness. — Jack Kerouac

Oh, I am getting married," Raisa said sleepily. "You promised me that if I agreed to marry you, that you would make it happen." She extended her hand, the one with the ring Han had given her, and waved it under his nose. "So. It's time to pay up. — Cinda Williams Chima

Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere. — Nancy Kress

The forgiveness of the weak is the air you strong ones breath, David. Didn't you know? You don't see it but you felt it just then. They allow you to go on living. — Nadeem Aslam

You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness. — Galileo Galilei

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet. — Arthur C. Clarke

Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the Russian is an urbanized phenomenon, this difference corresponds to that which exists between the users of two different forms of written communication, the one archaic, the other alphabetic? — Eric A. Havelock

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself. — Jules Renard

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster. — Aristophanes

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data. — Linda Chavez