Venelin Kounev Quotes

#1. Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

Rajneesh

#2. Love isn't a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there's a mistake. It's a gift, as much for the giver as the one who's given it.

Nora Roberts

#3. I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"]

William Matthews

#4. I am not a teacher of humanity, I am merely servant of humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#6. I believe that my handicap will only enhance my ability to help others. I know that without the suffering, the growth that I have achieved would have been impossible.

Viktor E. Frankl

#7. Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. The enemy will never attack you where you are strongest. . . . He will attack where you are weakest. If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will.

William R. Forstchen

#9. It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories.

Scottie Pippen

#10. God is able to do more than man can understand.

Thomas A Kempis

#11. I struggle to discover what these silent sons of mine want, but words have always failed me. They are sullen even as they tell me they are okay. I know they are lying but there is nothing I can do.

Jinat Rehana Begum

#12. I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

Mark Millar

#13. It is more worthy in the eyes of God ... if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.

Garrison Keillor

#14. One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

John Burnside

#15. But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments.

Kevin Richardson