Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

Showing just the dark side doesn't always work. The important thing is to show what we can learn from dark things, what good we find there.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: May 31, 1948

Topics

WorkGoodLearnFindDarkDark Side

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

Joanna Southcott

FatherAngerMeNightCleanOut

I was born in 1968 and grew up in my grandmother's house in suburban Connecticut, where I was convinced a ghost named Virgil lived in the attic.

Jennifer McMahon

HouseBornGrandmotherUpLived

In my real life, I wear a T-shirt, gray or white, and the same pair of jeans. Literally, the same pair of jeans every day.

Anderson Cooper

LifeDayEvery DayWhiteT-Shirt

Going to a one-plane swing method has made me a much more consistent player. Even when I'm not on, I never get very far off.

Matt Kuchar

MeSwingMoreNeverGoingGet

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Robert Browning

ManTemptationMeetTriumphWhyHis

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

RealityMoreSufferThingsUsHarm

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Joseph Barbera

LaughterWorldRealReleaseRelief

I'm a big believer in education, period.

Jon Secada

EducationBigBig BelieverBeliever

For me, being Italian, I love pizza. Particularly from Naples. I am obsessed.

Chiara Ferragni

LoveI AmPizzaMeBeingNaples

When it's your time, it is your time.

Bruno Mars

TimeYour

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

Arthur Capper

LifeEducationStruggleSchoolCity

When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities to be a coach.

Anne Donovan

MeCareerKnowOldCoachAspire

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