Verificirani Quotes

#1. He had promised Leslie that after Christmas he would stay home and fix up the house and plant his garden and listen to music and read books out loud and write only in his spare time.

Katherine Paterson

#2. A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

J.G. Holland

#3. These are people who consciously choose failure in order to preserve their own sense of integrity. They are more elitist than mere snobs, because of their high standards.

Azar Nafisi

#4. Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

Hilary Rosen

#5. The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

Volkmar Sigusch

#6. Everybody engaged in complex work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is a very useful thing.

Charlie Munger

#7. It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

Austin Phelps