Vovkino Quotes & Sayings

History is not an escalator. — Max Eastman

I press my lips to hers with such delicacy; I want her to feel everything she's ever deserved to feel at the hands of someone else. She deserves to feel beautiful. She deserves to feel important. She deserves to feel cared for. She deserves to feel respected. She deserves to feel like there's at least one other person in this world who accepts her for exactly who she is. — Colleen Hoover

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value. — Millicent Fawcett

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear. — Emile Durkheim

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier. — Charles Duhigg

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship? — Peter Shaffer

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving. — Thomas Carlyle

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States. — George Mikes

Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners. — Alfred Sheinwold

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'. — John Wozniak

I might define a 'journey' as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a 'trip' as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly part and parcel of both, the latter is emboldened by fear while the former surrenders to it. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all. — Bernard Moitessier

It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that. — Kevin Spacey

Luther's point was that, according to Scripture, salvation is not a bake sale: — Sarah Vowell