Baltica Bistro Quotes & Sayings

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. — Edvard Munch

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you. — Henry Ward Beecher

[Francis of Assisi was one of the] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change — Jon M. Sweeney

By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it. — Damien Chazelle

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk. — James Surowiecki

And Venus must be hot if the history of the solar system is not the history of no change for billions of years. And Venus was found hot, not room temperature as was thought until 1959. In 1961 it was detected with radio means that it is like something like 600 Farenheit and Mariner 2 was sent out to find out true or not true? It was found that even more it is full 800 [degrees Farenheit]. — Immanuel Velikovsky

This, then, was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas. — Ray Kurzweil

Being strong, showing that you will see things through no matter what comes your way, that's what matters most to me. — Cat Zingano

Someone like you is brilliant and amazing.' I said. 'Why can't you see that in yourself?' The unfairness of it was starting to sink in. If she could only see herself like I did, there wouldn't be a problem. But she didn't, and she never would, and that was so many levels of wrong and unfair I almost couldn't comprehend it. — Sara Barnard

ONE DAY, COCK OF THE WALK - NEXT DAY, A FEATHER DUSTER — Diana Gabaldon

Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love, and breathe nothing but blood. Their words are humane, but their hearts are cruel. — Denis Diderot

But you can do this. You have already begun, rejoined her calm and reassuring voice softly through lips likewise motionless. You can, you are, you must, because that is what is required of you. We are all afraid, Rhissan - for what we are and what we are not, for what may or may not come - and there is neither shame nor guilt in that. Those fears are part of what it is to be human. But to allow them to paralyze you into inaction and permit the triumph of evil... now there is the shame a shame not to be borne. — D.R. Ranshaw

Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best were not facts or arguments but words that tickled people's brains for some reason, that just amused them. Puns, and exaggerations, and things that were true and not at the same time. — Max Barry