David Albahari Quotes

#1. So during the rainy season the prudent person carries an umbrela, while the reckless person does not and, of course, gets wet when it rains. Prudence is not precise knowledge, but a willingness to adapt to circumstances in the shortest possible time.

David Albahari

#2. Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself,
Counting this row and that row of moccasins
Waiting on the silent shelf.

Anne Sexton

#3. Something just flashes into your mind, so exciting, and you must out with it. If you stop to think it over, you spoil it all.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.

Heraclitus

#5. Remembering is the only way to defeat the death.

David Albahari

#6. Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

Tori Spelling

#7. Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

Barry Gibb

#8. Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

Gottfried Leibniz

#9. Man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Aldous Huxley

#11. Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bobbi Brown

#12. My heart's pounding like I'm watching Oprah's farewell season.

LIZ