It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
#quotes #ivan-turgenev

The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo). ~Ibrahim Rugova
#quotes #ibrahim-rugova #law #united-nations

I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
#quotes #lauren-oliver #thinking #death

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
#quotes #richard-dawkins #physics #big-bang

Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
#quotes #sue-grafton #children #schooling

You are playing worse and worse every day and right now you are playing like it's next month. ~Herb Brooks
#quotes #herb-brooks #inspiration

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs

I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
#quotes #john-cena #children #pride

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
#quotes #franco-nero #eating

No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
#proverbs #turkish-proverbs

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
#proverbs #jewish-proverbs

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
#proverbs #swedish-proverbs #beauty #virtue

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #wisdom #light

Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
#quotes #frederick-lenz #buddhism

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
#proverbs #moorish-proverbs #mother

Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#quotes #sarvepalli-radhakrishnan #god #soul

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #age #dream #regret

People say, "Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?" But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you? ~John C. Reilly
#quotes #john-c-reilly #love #tired

No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
#quotes #elizabeth-george #life #heart #god

If someone were to say, "Well, what would you have done differently?" I'd say, "Nothing." I think you need to make mistakes. ~Kim Kardashian
#quotes #kim-kardashian

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
#proverbs #african-proverbs

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
#quotes #james-stephens #curiosity #fear

Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
#proverbs #german-proverbs #promise

But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
#quotes #darynda-jones

The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
#quotes #christopher-nolan