Faina Quotes

#1. I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.

Faina Ranevskaya

#2. Women critics are amazons in climax.

Faina Ranevskaya

#3. The music on the radio is fine, it's just not my type of music. You don't play an instrument, and you don't need to be able to sing. You just need to be able to make a beat and use auto-tune. It's crazy!

Elizabeth Gillies

#4. Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

Doris Lessing

#5. It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

Faina Ranevskaya

#6. I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

Jo Brand

#7. All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

Faina Ranevskaya

#8. You have the power to kill, in the knife you hold
But for centuries my story will be told."
"A weapon you not need to be able to kill,
Just a fair knowledge of Achilles' heel

Dixy Gandhi

#9. On should life his life in such a way that even bastards remember him.

Faina Ranevskaya

#10. Beauty is a horrible power.

Faina Ranevskaya

#11. My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.

Faina Ranevskaya

#12. A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

Faina Ranevskaya

#13. Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

Faina Ranevskaya

#14. For an immortal life, don't look for power, but be the source of power and inspiration for others.

Debasish Mridha

#15. A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband.

Faina Ranevskaya

#16. If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.

Faina Ranevskaya

#17. I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

Demi Moore

#18. Optimism is lack of information.

Faina Ranevskaya

#19. It's not a face, but a personal insult.

Faina Ranevskaya

#20. If a woman walks with her head down - she has a lover! If a woman walks with her head proudly up - she has a lover! If a woman carries her head straight - she has a lover! And actually, if a woman has a head, she has a
lover!

Faina Ranevskaya

#21. It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

Faina Ranevskaya

#22. We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#23. I had enough brain to live a stupid life.

Faina Ranevskaya

#24. You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it.

Faina Ranevskaya

#25. Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?

Faina Ranevskaya

#26. The main thing I sense is...darkness." As soon as the words were out I realized how awful they sounded, so I rushed to clarify, "But it's not a bad darkness. It's more like a warm-summer-night kind of darkenss, not the monster-under-the-bed kind of darkness.

Kristen Day

#27. Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

Faina Ranevskaya

#28. Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.

Faina Ranevskaya

#29. God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.

Faina Ranevskaya

#30. Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

Faina Ranevskaya

#31. When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.

Faina Ranevskaya

#32. Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide ... And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.

Faina Ranevskaya

#33. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such 'wisdom' does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice" (James 3:14

Craig Groeschel

#34. Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

Faina Ranevskaya

#35. Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

Faina Ranevskaya

#36. Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.

Faina Ranevskaya

#37. You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defense.

Rob Gronkowski

#38. Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.

Faina Ranevskaya