Vecinii Indiei Quotes & Sayings

By dying young, a man stays young forever in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his light shines for all time. In his musings during the past few weeks Vadim had discovered an important and at first glance paradoxical point: a man of talent can understand and accept death more easily than a man with none - yet the former has more to lose. A man of no talent craves long life, yet Epicurus had once observed that a fool, if offered eternity, would not know what to do with it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Love is a scandal of the personal sort. — Anton Chekhov

Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child. — Florence Littauer

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. — Augustus De Morgan

After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as 'night, Mother.' — Marsha Norman

He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions
it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us. — Benjamin Zander

It's not your job to judge or to decide if someone deserves something. It's your job to lift the fallen and comfort the broken. — Karen Gibbs

You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry. — Courtney Love

If there are ever times when I would regret the choice York is making, it is times like these, when life feels like another page waiting to get turned. — Rene Denfeld

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it. — Norman Davies

In this book, much is metaphorical, not as it seems. It's written for writing's sake, as if I were to say, "Let me tell you I'm dying." Well of course I am. So are you. — Chila Woychik

Try walking the halls of Congress. It's Abercrombie & Fitch meets the Hair Club for Men. Lots of really photogenic young people kissing up to lots of insufferable blowhards. Separated by one or two generations, most of these players have only one real thing in common: They have never been weaned from the public teat. The closest they've ever come to meeting a payroll is when they come together to spend everyone else's payroll taxes. — Michelle Malkin

a hymn then
not to birds but to words
which themselves feel
like feather and wing
and light, as if it were
on the delicacy of
such sweet syllables
that flocks take flight. — Kei Miller

Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things. — Catherine Of Aragon

What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge