Zarubejnie Quotes & Sayings

The secret to a happy life is your attitude. If you think positively, positive things will happen. If you think negatively ... well where is the happiness? — Gloria Tesch

Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They're grown right here in our orchards."
"I didn't know that words grew on trees," said Milo timidly.
"Where did you think they grew?" shouted the earl irritably. A small crowd began to gather to see the little boy who didn't know that letters grew on trees.
"I didn't know they grew at all," admitted Milo even more timidly. Several people shook their heads sadly.
"Well, money doesn't grow on trees, does it?" demanded the count.
"I've heard not," said Milo.
"Then something must. Why not words?" exclaimed the undersecretary triumphantly. The crowd cheered his display of logic and continued about its business. — Norton Juster

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity. — George Saunders

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. — Grover Norquist

You're crazy about me, Elliot ... "
"You know how I know, Elliot?" ...
"I know how you feel because I feel the same way. — Josh Lanyon

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. — Martin Freeman

Yet if there's one thing I know with absolute certainty, both personally and professionally, it is this: Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road. — Susan Forward

Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality. — Richard Adams

We all have a monster somewhere inside us," Charlotte said. "Like I was saying about the kids. Sometimes it's aggressive, sometimes it finds other forms of attack, and other times it's a cowardly one. — Wildbow

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb. — Hosea Ballou

There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove. — Deacon Jones