Civilizace V Quotes & Sayings

It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say ... In fact, I became particularly aware if the dangers of speculation ... It's so much easier than digging out the facts. You sit in your office and build a system. But with my training in biology, I felt this kind of undertaking precarious. — Jean Piaget

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. — Gloria Steinem

when someone says "I don't care" it's because he cares, strongly so — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I told Sabe floor-scrubbing was winter — Sue Monk Kidd

When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you. — Keith Ellison

I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong. — Eric Bana

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. — Francis Thompson

It was worse than murder. It was twisted, wretched perversion, as though someone had bludgeoned another person to death with a Botticelli, turned something of beauty to an act of utter destruction. — Jim Butcher

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly. — Daniel J. Levitin

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important. — Gloria Steinem

Anyone so damaged as to cause this much harm led a life full of secrets and full of enemies. — Louise Penny

Humility before God is nothing if not proved in humility before men — Andrew Murray

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine — Elvis Presley

We can't continue to kick the can when it comes to the fiscal state of this country. — Kelly Ayotte