Cvrstoca Quotes & Sayings

The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose. — John Helm

So you should accept knowledge as if you were hearing something you already knew. But this does not mean to receive various pieces of information merely as an echo of your own opinions. It means that you should not be surprised at whatever you see or hear. If you receive things just as an echo of yourself, you do not really see them, you do not fully accept them as they are. So when we say, "Rozan is famous for its misty, rainy days," it does not mean to appreciate this sight by recollecting some scenery we have seen before: "It is not so wonderful. I have seen that sight before." Or "I have painted much more beautiful paintings! Rozan is nothing!" This is not our way. If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends, even though you appreciate them with new feeling. — Shunryu Suzuki

What we resist persists. — Sonia Johnson

I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath. — Joe Royle

Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair. — Bryant McGill

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have. — Henry Ward Beecher

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. — John F. Kennedy

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress. — Coleman Hawkins

A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace. — Muhammad