Efthymios Avgerinos Quotes

#1. Much later I realized that Russian people, because of the poverty and squalor of their lives, love to amuse themselves with sorrow--to play with it like children, and are seldom ashamed of being unhappy.

Maxim Gorky

#2. Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

Maria Konnikova

#3. He had no idea that grief was a reward. That it only came to those who were loyal, to those who loved more than they were capable of.

Nami Mun

#4. Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next.

Stephen Baxter

#5. Corrupt judicial practices in Russia, America, China, Great Britain, and other countries only vary by a single degree: the cost of services.

Christopher Mart

#6. The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

Dale Dauten

#7. to make it as simple as possible but not too simple.

Jenny Rogers

#8. Yet I murdered the lighthouse keeper, Botho August, and that is an equal part of how I think about myself.

Howard Norman

#9. I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts.

Jim Rohn

#10. The deepest roots of this modern shift are twofold: in epistemology, the romanticist advocacy of feeling as superior to reason; in ethics, the altruist advocacy of others as superior to self. The result is a view of morality in which the ruling standard is: the feelings of others.

Leonard Peikoff

#11. He carried Claire out of the room and down the steps, feeling the whole way like maybe he should hold onto the railing. "Ja. Nigh-nigh," Claire said, big blue eyes looking at him. "Uh, sure." He knew three languages, and none of them were helping him out right now.

Laura Kaye

#12. A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

Reza Aslan

#13. Mid-life crises, in Fran's ageing view, are a luxury compared with what she has seen of end-of-life crises.

Margaret Drabble

#14. He had told her that he would never care deeply for her, that he was incapable of strong feelings. Tess would - would /spit/ before she believed that nonsense.

Eloisa James