Ventei Quotes & Sayings

We spend our lives in such a hurry, so self-centred, that we forget the simple act of observing the life that's simmering all around us. Looking others in the eye, seeing more than faces. Maybe that's why we feel so lonely. — Filipa Fonseca Silva

The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. — Rob Thomas

Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The male half of the population will be nothing but mindless drooling Zombies of Lust. Granted, this is also true now, but it will be even worse. — Dave Barry

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp. — Gabriel Marcel

Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do. — John Wooden

Once his life had been like this. He applied strength and determination to a messy problem until the stickiness went away, strands of sense formed and suddenly a hopeless mess was transformed into something beautiful, delectable, something everyone wanted.
Now, no matter how hard he tried, no one wanted what he had to offer. — Roxanne Snopek

Sometimes she just stands and looks out the window where the people whose lives are intact enough not to have to take yoga live. — Jenny Offill

When I kissed you the day I left, I swear to God you stripped me bare. — Scarlett Cole

The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused.
[Lat., Apparet divom numen, sedesque quietae;
Quas neque concutiunt ventei, nec nubila nimbeis.
Aspergunt, neque nex acri concreta pruina
Cana cadens violat; semper sine nubibus aether
Integer, et large diffuso lumine ridet.] — Lucretius

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power. — Heather Brooke

I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake. — Johann Lamont

In 2001, my co-workers at PayPal and I would often get lunch on Castro Street in Mountain View. We had our pick of restaurants, starting with obvious categories like Indian, sushi, and burgers. There were more options once we settled on a type: North Indian or South Indian, cheaper or fancier, and so on. In contrast to the competitive local restaurant market, PayPal was at that time the only email-based payments company in the world. We employed fewer people than the restaurants on Castro Street did, but our business was much more valuable than all of those restaurants combined. Starting a new South Indian restaurant is a really hard way to make money. If you lose sight of competitive reality and focus on trivial differentiating factors - maybe you think your naan is superior because of your great-grandmother's recipe - your business is unlikely to survive. — Peter Thiel

There is no time to leave important words unsaid. — Paulo Coelho

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks. — Pat Conroy

You can't be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again. — Austin Kleon