Domansky Zdiby Quotes & Sayings

She [Mrs. Badger] was surrounded in the drawing-room by various objects, indicative of her painting a little, playing the piano a little, playing the guitar a little, playing the harp a little, singing a little, working a little, reading a little, writing poetry a little, and botanizing a little. She was a lady of about fifty, I should think, youthfully dressed, and of a very fine complexion. If I add to the little list of her accomplishments that she rouged a little, I do not mean that there was any harm in it. — Charles Dickens

How do you engineer breakthroughs? — Anonymous

For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable. — John Allen Fraser

All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him — Vincent De Paul

If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear. — Confucius

You don't want to finish our drinks?"
He took my hand, and pressed his lips against the inside of my wrist. "I'm already
intoxicated. — Cora Carmack

I hunger to commit the act of touch. — Margaret Atwood

That sounds suspiciously like faith in me," he mocks. "You see faith where only a challenge has been issued. Will you fail? — Karen Marie Moning

Going beyond sarcasm straight to out-and-out insult is delicious, like wriggling out of a pair of Spanx. — Sarah Bird

Today, banking assets (that is, loans) in the world's major economies are equivalent to around 150 per cent of those countries' combined GDP. — Niall Ferguson

A man with dreams cannot be denied — Kevin Harris

A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it. — Malcolm X

So here's the deal:
I speak up in class, I get sent to office. Megan speaks up in class, she's a "strong, assertive model student."I post a few flyers saying that the vending machines on school property are a sign that our school has sold out to corporate-industrial establishment, I get (what else?) Saturday detention. Megan starts a campaign to serve local foods in the lunchroom (oh, and can we please maybe get rid of the soda machines?) and the local newspaper does a write-up about her.
She's like me, only not. Not like me at all. She's the golden girl and I'm ... tarnished.
So forgive me if I hate her a little. — Katie Alender

Fun is never gone because life is fun. — Debasish Mridha