Czerna Klasztor Quotes & Sayings

And so take away his work, which was his life [ ... ] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his? — C.S. Lewis

At night, when human discords and harmonies are hushed, ... there is nothing to moderate the blow with which the infinitely great, the stellar universe, strikes down upon the infinitely little, the mind of the beholder ... Having got closer to immensity than their fellow-creatures, they saw at once its beauty and its frightfulness. They more and more felt the contrast between their own tiny magnitudes and those among which they had recklessly plunged, till they were oppressed with the presence of a vastness they could not cope with even as an idea, and which hung about them like a nightmare. — Thomas Hardy

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me. — Suzanne Vega

Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it. — Denis Leary

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history ... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go. — David B. Coe

If it feels like cracks are forming in your life, those cracks may be what is needed for the light within to reveal itself. — Heidi DuPree

Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news. — George Bernard Shaw

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something. — Kenny Rogers

This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. — Chuck Palahniuk

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul. — Rod Stewart

Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act — Paulo Coelho

Study, Get a Job, Get Married, Have a Baby and Die. Why nobody wants the prize? — Daniel Marques

The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing. — J.D. Salinger

We condemn the view that the (U.S.-led) occupation's existence is beneficial for the Iraqi people because if it ended, there would be sectarian war - as if sectarian war has not already begun. — Muqtada Al Sadr

I like to stay cool and comfortable. If I'm going out, then I might wear a nice sundress or skirt to keep from getting too hot. — Sloane Stephens