Grigory Petrov Quotes

#1. People think you want them to do something or say something special ... you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.

John Lennon

#2. It's hard to get fluffed up about love anymore. I've lived it. I try to avoid it. If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again ... I go in another direction.

Phil Everly

#3. I play each point like my life depends on it.

Rafael Nadal

#4. It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys, who only look nice a hundred years later, that are the real Dynamic force in social evolution.

Robert M. Pirsig

#5. Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

Dick Cavett

#6. The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

Robert W. Firestone

#7. While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.

John Templeton

#8. You are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.

Glennon Melton

#9. Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

Mary Schmich

#11. The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy.

John Piper

#12. Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

Clarence Thomas

#13. You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Thomas Hardy

#14. The people were gone, and the years had demolished all traces - but it did not really matter to Kira, who stared steely eyed into the darkness. She had seen far lovelier things fade away.

Caitlin Rush

#15. I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy.

Arthur Conan Doyle