Kononov Quotes

#1. Everything around us is roses, and we're the shit in between.

Katherine Boo

#2. If I were suddenly to become known, and (put into a position to) conduct (a government) according to the Great Tao, what I should be most afraid of would be a boastful display.

Lao-Tzu

#3. Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.

Warren Buffett

#4. Darkness now is pure phenomenon, nothing to do with him. This is the final relationship with the universe: you find solace only in things that offer none.

Glen Duncan

#5. Trust takes time.
Slowly grown, easily broken.

Stjepan Sejic

#6. I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

Eddie Van Halen

#7. Thriving. That's fighting ... Surviving is barely getting by.

Jillian Michaels

#8. I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Florence Nightingale

#9. The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.

Frankie Knuckles

#10. Perhaps nothing is more common than to bewail the shortness of life, unless it is to mispend the little time we are permitted to enjoy.

John Thelwall

#11. I saw 'Avatar' and liked it very much. It was a great achievement.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#12. The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God's existence.

Karen Armstrong