Volvas Staves Quotes & Sayings

Yesterday. Was there a more merciless word? — Cornelia Funke

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is. — Edward Said

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts. — L. Ron Hubbard

They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to, because the cheese kept floating off in space. — Stephen Colbert

We waste those eggs like crazy, of course, flushing them out every month in days of bleeding, but then most sperm are wholly useless as well, a thought to be considered elsewhere at greater length. — Siri Hustvedt

Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught. — Vladimir Kramnik

I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing ... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand. — Rick Wagoner

When she saw me, my mother stood up and started to come toward me, but then stopped. I think maybe Cat Poop had told her not to make any sudden movements because they might scare me, like I'm a wild animal or something, because she kept looking at him and then at me. Finally she just said, "Hello, Jeff," and sat down again next to my father. — Michael Thomas Ford

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful. — Aristotle.

Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities! — Mehmet Murat Ildan