Nina Berberova Famous Quotes
"I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life."
Nina Berberova Quotations
"Ed Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50 - 50 chance of living, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that."
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.
Charlotte Bronte
"The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas."
Alfred Victor Vigny
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
James A LaFondLewis
"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
Charles Sumner
"I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope."
Sextus Julius Frontinus
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Publilius Syrus
"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish."
Homer
"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
Baltasar Gracian