Barkovich Textbook Quotes & Sayings

Our starting point is not the individual:
We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked ... Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world. — Joseph Goebbels

No, Kinkade," Chase said thoughtfully. "I don't think a woman can destroy you. You can't be destroyed because ... there's nothing to destroy. I warrant that you just reflect whatever's near you. Like a puddle of mud. You reflect honor if you're near it. You reflect decay if you're near it. Left to your own devices, you've no moral center at all, no concern except for your own pleasure. This is the result. — Julie Anne Long

But there was something more miserable still - it was the clutch of solitude at her heart, the sense of being swept like a stray uprooted growth down the heedless current of the years. — Edith Wharton

LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh. — William Blake

The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing? — W. H. Auden

Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash. — Margaret Deland

When coming to sex: First served, first come. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The busy man is busy with everything except living; there is nothing that is more difficult to learn how to do right. — Seneca.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform. — Diane Setterfield

If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't. — Timothy Keller

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer. — R.A. Salvatore

The Industrial Revolution was about making physical things. Many of the manufactured goods that were once tangible objects have now been reduced to bits and bytes of data. — Jay Samit

President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century. — Nigel Hamilton

I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences. — Graham Parke