Lithuanian Christmas Sayings

#1. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WROTE THAT "if something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#2. If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#3. See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.

Robert Collier

#4. Never forsake what we have. There is no barter or trade worth exchanging what we mean to one another.

Truth Devour

#5. The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

Ginger Rogers

#6. That's almost the best part, making the record cover.

Hutch Harris

#7. Patrice raised his cup and smiled. "To a successful flight, then."
To wealthy eccentric clients with more money than brains, Elle thought to herself as she took a sip of fragrant tea.

Liesel Schwarz

#8. The cost of life is simply the value that was extracted from the time available.

Steven Redhead

#9. I took a break, stretched, tried again, failed, kicked over the music stand (I am not proud of that), and wonder whether I had reached the limits of my musical ability. Maybe I'd never had any. Surely someone with a modicum of talent wouldn't have to work this hard.

Rachel Hartman

#10. I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.

Adam Savage

#11. the primary practice of language is not in giving out information but being in relationship.

Eugene H. Peterson