Zaharia Trahanache Quotes & Sayings

I one day saw, in the assembly of this prince, a man with a knife in his hand, which he placed upon his own neck; he then made a long speech, not a word of which I could understand; he then firmly grasped the knife, and its sharpness and the force with which he urged it were such, that he severed his head from his body, and it fell on the ground.14 I was wondering much at the circumstance, when the King said to me: Does any among you do such a thing as this? I answered, I never saw one do so. He smiled, and said: These our servants do so, out of their love to us. He — Ibn Battuta

They could have lived on happiness alone, in their glamourous poverty, in their apartment. — Lauren Groff

When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory, but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew. — Stephen King

There's a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It's hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility. — Tia Mowry

You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale. — Chris Gethard

FUCK, SUZANNE!! Can't you handle anything sanely, for fucking once?! Don't lose it right now, PLEASE! I'm begging you to stay sane, just this once. For ME! I can't handle watching you freak out AND deal with this death too. Just stay sane- for ME- just ONCE! — Sarah Ann Walker

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. — W. Somerset Maugham

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept? — Frank Herbert

And he gave me what I needed, placing my shoulders against the wall and fucking me senseless, fucking the past right from my mind, right from my body for a few glorious minutes. — Lucian Bane

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil. — John Dewey

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them. — Beck

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions. — William John Locke

Can you imagine looking at forever and knowing you'll always be alone? — Jennie Hendrickson

I come from a musical kind of family. — Chris O'Dowd

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves. — Michel De Montaigne