Starets Optina Quotes

#1. How humid the heart, its messy rooms! We eat spicy food, sweat like wood and smolder like the coal mine that caught fire decades ago, yet still smokes more than my great-uncle who will not quit- or go out-

Kevin Young

#2. One of the roles of a U.S. ambassador - anywhere in the world - is to promote bilateral trade and investment.

James Costos

#3. The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Agnes Repplier

#4. Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder. If it doesn't look out for yourself.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!

Jeff Smith

#6. The French doctor - the French, they are a very logical race and make good doctors - says: "M'sieu, they have all been on the wrong track - ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

#7. History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Edward Gibbon

#8. No such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in.

John Keats

#9. Black met black on the distant horizon, the stars alone distinguishing sky from lake. On the sand below, Silver Beach glittered at the water's edge while on the north side of the river the lighthouse's beacon signaled safe harbor.

Erin Farwell

#10. Dallas didn't have the luxury of keeping them all cozy anymore. Shut them down. Start with the power grid. Let's see how those fancy motherfuckers like the dark.

Kit Rocha

#11. I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

Lesley Manville

#12. I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric.

Shea Hembrey

#13. A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.

Lord Chesterfield

#14. We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other ... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

Mark Twain