Bilyana Shuman Quotes

#1. Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

John Steinbeck

#2. I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'

Elmore Leonard

#3. You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

#4. I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.

Lindsay Lohan

#5. The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.

Narciso Yepes

#6. Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn't: holes, lack, deficiency.

Ann Voskamp

#7. Remember, we who fell like stars from Heaven still shine bright in our own court.

Philip Dodd

#8. What nourishes me also destroys me

Cora Carmack

#9. The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

Charles Spurgeon

#10. I had come in stages to a different belief about how one should be in this life. I now felt convinced that the greater part of a man's duty consists in abstaining from much that he is in the habit of consuming.

Geraldine Brooks

#11. We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

John F. Kennedy

#12. Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.

Philip Pullman

#13. It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder