Czyzewski Quotes & Sayings

Finding a homeland is not the same as dwelling in the place where our ancestors once used to live. - KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI — Tony Judt

Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion. — Phyllis McGinley

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working. — Rumi

Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases. — Fernand Point

I was starting to understand why the blood of a thousand virgins had been sacrificed at his altar of sexual prowess. — Penny Reid

I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it? — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. — Mark Twain

Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he was surrounded by bread. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9Blessed are c the peacemakers, for d they shall be called e sons [1] of God. — Anonymous

After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating. — Method Man

The Jews are not a nation! — Joseph Stalin

Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them. — William Shakespeare

Undoubtedly our Heavenly Father tires of expressions of love in words only. He has made it clear through his prophets and his word that his ways are ways of commitment, and not conversation. He prefers performance over lip service. We show our true love for him in proportion to our keeping his words ... — Marvin J. Ashton

As we look for humor, seek for the eternal perspective, understnd the principle of compensation, and draw near to our Heavenly Father, we can endure heardship and trial. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one - and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right. — Rainbow Rowell