Zavacs Quotes & Sayings

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. — Alexander Pope

When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it. — Sarah Addison Allen

Help me to live to Thee for ever, to make Thee my last and only end, so that I may never more in one instance love my sinful self. — Anonymous

Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy. — Frederick Lenz

I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently stronger or more intelligent competitors. — John Elkann

They can take away my livelihood and my food and" - here his voice hitched - "my grandson. But they can't take away my dreams." His — Jodi Picoult

My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It was everything, those nights on the phone, everything we said until late became later & then later & very late & finally to go to bed with my ear warm & worn & red from holding the phone close, close, close so as not to miss a word of what it was, because who cared how tired I was in the humdrum slave drive of our days without each other? I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you & I did. But that's why right there it was doomed. We couldn't only have the magic nights buzzing through the wires. We had to have the days, too, the bright impatient days spoiling everything with their unavoidable schedules, their mandatory times that don't overlap, their loyal friends who don't get along, the unforgiven travesties torn from the wall no matter what promises are uttered past midnight & that's why we broke up. — Daniel Handler

She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. He never said anything. She was afraid then, she was one needing charming stories and happy telling of them and not having that thing she was always trembling. — Gertrude Stein

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary. — Drew Barrymore

You have to allow yourself to make a mistake now and then. Sometimes in our lives, the best results come from the worst mistakes. — Melody Anne

Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders. — James Dobson

People in general, and knowledge workers in particular, grow according to the demands they make on themselves. They grow according to what they consider to be achievement and attainment. If they demand little of themselves, they will remain stunted. If they demand a good deal of themselves, they will grow to giant stature - without any more effort than is expended by the nonachievers. — Peter F. Drucker

We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had. — Dana Reinhardt