Viktoria Komova quotes

  • I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown rice and lentils. Now I eat small meals throughout the day: oatmeal with cinnamon to start, fruit and yogurt as a snack, and vegetables or with chicken or tuna, and a healthy carb, like a yam, for lunch.

  • I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.

  • Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

  • There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

  • Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

  • It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

  • She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

  • Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

  • If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

  • Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.