Karmelita Kaunas Quotes

#1. Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#2. Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.

Mary Webb

#3. The proper term is "occultation." The moon occults the sun, casting a small shadow onto the surface of the earth. It is not a solar eclipse, but in fact an eclipse of the earth.

Guillermo Del Toro

#4. Gratitude is a way of reducing the importance of what somebody has done for you,

Vipin Behari Goyal

#5. Christ, would you look at that shite? Supes an' religion, the two worst things on the planet.

Garth Ennis

#6. Indeed, the UNGA has acquired perhaps its most obvious significance as a protest forum for dissatisfied would-be nations (such as the Palestinians since 1970s).

Jussi M. Hanhimaki

#7. Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman - not an artist. There's nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen - though not designed by them. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying.

Anthony Bourdain

#8. I can't even describe to anybody what it feels like to have my naked body shot across the world like a news flash against my will. It just makes me feel like a piece of meat that's being passed around for profit.

Jennifer Lawrence

#9. A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.

Jasper Fforde

#10. Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#11. More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Amy Grant

#12. Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

Earl Warren

#13. There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle;
only something that's still beyond logic of the observer.

Toba Beta

#14. I have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.

Dolly Parton

#15. Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

Don DeLillo