Viliamu Afatias Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Know how to live the time that is given you. — Dario Fo

A saint addicted to abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he is very likely to infect you with an incurable poverty, a stiffening of the articulations necessary to advancement, and, in fact, more renunciation than you would like; and men flee from this contagious virtue. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur Bienvenu. We live in a sad society. Succeed
that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. — Victor Hugo

A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years - seldom longer. — Henrik Ibsen

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing. — Swami Vivekananda

Look north.
Achilles on the rampart by the ditch:
He lifts his face to 90; draws his breath;
And from the bottom of his heart emits
So long and loud and terrible a scream,
The icy scabs at either end of earth
Winced in their sleep; and in the heads that fought
It seemed as if, and through his voice alone,
The whole world's woe could be abandoned to the sky.

An in that instant all the fighting glassed. — Christopher Logue

Mothers are all slightly insane. — J.D. Salinger

As a genius St. Paul cannot be compared with either Plato or Shakespeare, as a coiner of beautiful similes he comes pretty low down in the scale, as a stylist his name is quite obscure--and as an upholsterer: well, I frankly admit I have no idea how to place him. — Soren Kierkegaard

Would you call it lucky to stay, or lucky to go?"
"I'd call it lucky to choose", said Moody. — Eleanor Catton

Forget about the ones who set you up to see you fall. — David Levithan

I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget. — George Strait

If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves, each other and our world. This is because the most important truths about us and them, is that we have been created by the Lord, and utterly depend upon him for our continued existence. — Alvin Plantinga

She didn't believe it, and Jack somehow knew it. Every guy she'd ever been with had treated her the same as Ben. It was how men were. But Jack was different. — Jasinda Wilder

To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime. — Jalal Talabani