Zabjelska Quotes & Sayings

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self. — Madeleine L'Engle

Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that you will not lose a friend by refusing him a loan, but that you are very likely to do so by granting it; and, for similar reasons, you will not readily alienate people by being somewhat proud and careless in your behavior; but if you are very kind and complaisant towards them, you will often make them arrogant and intolerable, and so a breach will ensue. — Arthur Schopenhauer

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war. — R. Lee Ermey

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss. — Frank McCourt

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it. — Mariska Hargitay

Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy. — Sidney Lumet

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches. — Henry Rollins

To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out. Crookedness and baseball do not mix. It has become immeasurably more popular as the years have gone by. It will be greater yet. This year, 1919, is the greatest season of them all. — Charles Comiskey

You can't sit down and decide what you want to write about. — John Burnside

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift. — Debbie Macomber

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. — D.H. Lawrence