Chroustnatka Quotes & Sayings

History, by definition, cannot be experienced directly. As it is happening, it is the present, and that is philosophy's realm. — Brandon Sanderson

For me, the good food starts with good product. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

- She studies mathematics at the Sorbonne.
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- Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think.
- Yes, but I did it in the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebells with mathematics? — Khaled Hosseini

Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life-but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want? — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

You'd be surprised how far away half dead is from fully dead, — Simone Elkeles

I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me. — Andrew Wyeth

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked. — Jan Egeland

Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam. — Herman Melville