Goncharov Dmitry Quotes

#1. Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.

Sarah Dessen

#2. The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what's important, not popular.

Alan Moore

#3. I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

Kate Christensen

#4. Here are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Jose Saramago

#5. Secret, smug believers! God never gives you
more than you can bear, they like to say, as if
the strong should be punished for their strength:
We can bear it. So we got it.
But what about my baby? How weak does
a newborn have to be to escape God's burdens?

Brenda Shaughnessy

#6. There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

E. M. Forster

#7. If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.

Bertrand Russell

#8. We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

#9. I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.

Dominic Cooper

#10. The bad principle is that any man should hold over another the power to bind and loose. It's a false relationship to stand in towards one's fellows

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#11. Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective.

Dan Simmons

#12. My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

Mae West

#13. Sophisticated people seem to think that "the truth" must always be dark, disappointing, disillusioning. But this is not so at all. Most of the time, darkness, disappointment, and disillusionment are the illusion.
Truth is neutral. Our decisions determine what darkens and what lightens our lives.

Orson Scott Card

#14. The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe.

Franjo Tudjman

#15. In New York, there are a lot of plays to see, and I try to see as many as I can.

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