Bajraktar Quotes & Sayings

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does. — David Baldacci

Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their whole lives in the course of a single day. From the point of view of a mayfly, human beings are stolid, boring, almost entirely immovable, offering hardly a hint that they ever do anything. From the point of view of a star, a human being is a tiny flash, one of billions of brief lives flickering tenuously on the surface of a strangely cold, anomalously solid, exotically remote sphere of silicate and iron. — Carl Sagan

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust. — Kenneth Rexroth

The only person who had ever really interrogated her was her husband, and that was because love is a constant interrogation. — Milan Kundera

Questions do not prove anything in themselves; rather, they provide opportunities to investigate an answer. — Gordon Nickel

Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals. — Wallace Stevens

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected? — Pliny The Elder

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality. — Jesse Jackson

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer. — Charles De Secondat

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Irena went to the window to savor the freedom of solitude. — Milan Kundera