"What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?"

-- Mikhail Bulgakov

#Girl Quotes #Party Quotes #Other Worlds Quotes

“James Davison took me out to show me where Karl is living right now and where hes going to build. Karl wasnt at home. He was out there somewhere in the woods riding on some Caterpillar or some kind of tractor. But I figured wed at least knock on the door to see if he was there. His wife answered the door. So we got to meet Kay before Karl.”
“I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.”
“Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.”

Source : Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice (1988). “Design metaphors”, Rizzoli International Publications
“Consider how blessed you are to have the things you do in life.”
“Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.”
“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: 'In the long run we are all dead.' And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.”
“It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.”
“Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world.”

Source : Dan Miller, Jared Angaza (2012). “Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate”, p.44, Thomas Nelson Inc

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