Drolja Majka Quotes & Sayings

The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical. — Gerhard Casper

As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year ... — Barbara Ehrenreich

When I talk to friends and editors about possible projects, especially about projects that might come with a significant cash advance, they usually suggest a biography. Sometimes I'm tempted, but the prospect of spending years researching and writing about someone else's life offends my vanity. — Michael Dirda

Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls. — Dominique Moceanu

She was the very embodiment of why a man should never do wrong by a woman. Revenge could be bloody awkward. — Angela Verdenius

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing. — Ibn Khaldun

There are more speculators about New Westminster and Victoria than there were in Winnipeg during the boom and they are a much sharper lot. Nearly every person is more or less interested and you will have to be on your guard against all of them. — William Cornelius Van Horne

I don't fear death but I fear the process of dying. — Debasish Mridha

If you don't care about the lapel or the buttons or the fit, then you are doing a disservice to the consumer. We're all inside the tunnel, speaking the language of business, but we need to speak the language of customers. — Mickey Drexler

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor. — Shirley Maclaine

I also know that you can lie not only by what you say but what you don't say. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time. — Anonymous

We can't do without dominating others or being served ... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back. — Albert Camus

The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government) has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction. — Alexander Hamilton