Vietos Savivaldos Quotes & Sayings

Sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge — Agatha Christie

No one can give you the answer because there is no answer. — Marty Rubin

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance. — George Will

Emma, you and your poetry, me and my acting--what are we trying to do? We can't top this city. We poor would-be artists can't compete with or improve on the rich density of human experience on any random, average, slow summer night in New York--who are we trying to kid? In the overheard conversation in the elevator, in the five minutes of talk the panhandler gives you before hitting you for the handout, in the brief give-and-take when you are going out and the cleaning lady is coming in--there are the real stories, incredible, heartbreaking and ridiculous, there are the command performances, the Great American Novels but forever unwritten, untoppable, and so beautifully unaware. — Wilton Barnhardt

There is no cheating in war; there are only survivors and victims. — Brent Weeks

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary. — Brian Perkins

And, as I say, you never can tell with bees. — Anonymous

Therein resides the fundamental systemic violence of capitalism, much more uncanny than direct pre-capitalist socio-ideological violence: its violence is no longer attributable to concrete individuals with their 'evil' intentions, but is purely 'objective,' systemic, anonymous
quite literally a conceptual violence, the violence of a Concept whose self-deployment rules and regulates social realty. — Slavoj Zizek

Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible event - losing their child to murder, say, or being sexually assaulted - with the bizarre and sometimes invasive nature of in-depth interviews that aren't just a quick list of ten questions? — Sarah Stillman

It's okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does. — Seth Godin

I want her to belong with someone who will make her happy, even if it means I have to hurt for the rest of my life. — Jessica Sorensen