Ostrovsky Sinus Quotes

#1. Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Lord Chesterfield

#2. To live is to wonder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

Timothy Garton Ash

#4. If you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst to profound reinvention.

Conan O'Brien

#5. They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. You don't get punished for doing something unimportant, after all.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#6. For although he is right with us and in and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find Him.

Thomas Merton

#7. With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured.

Dana Plato

#8. What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.

Oscar De La Renta

#9. I should have" is one of the most tragic phrases in the English language. Live while you can.

Michael A. McLellan

#10. You should just accept who you are, flaws and all, because if you try to be someone you aren't, then eventually some turkey is going to shit all over your well-crafted facade, so you might as well save yourself the effort and enjoy your zombie books.

Jenny Lawson

#11. I suppose there's always something out there that we want to torture ourselves with.

Charles Bukowski