Veress Attila Quotes & Sayings

If I am not working, I won't wear makeup and I will wear flats. — Michelle Ryan

Talking to Robespierre, one tried to make the right noises; but what is right, these days? Address yourself to the militant, and you find a pacifist giving you a reproachful look. Address yourself to the idealist, and you'll find that you've fallen into the company of a cheerful, breezy professional politician. Address yourself to means, and you'll be told to think of ends: to ends, and you'll be told to think of means. Make an assumption, and you will find it overturned; offer yesterday's conviction, and today you'll find it shredded. What did Mirabeau complain of? He believes everything he says. Presumably there was some layer of Robespierre, some deep stratum, where all the contradictions were resolved. — Hilary Mantel

Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough. — Kelley Armstrong

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic. — Ursula K. Le Guin

When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career. — Viswanathan Anand

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness. — John Updike

I wish I had a river I could skate away on? — Joni Mitchell

With great power ... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later. — Rick Riordan