Franciskovich Origin Quotes & Sayings

As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result. — Herbert Spencer

It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try. — Lauren Myracle

Those are fools however learned
Who have not learned to walk with the world. — Thiruvalluvar

The gardener, an old sailor, made him a hammock and fixed it up for him in the branches of a weeping willow. And here for long hours he lay, hidden from anyone who might come to the vicarage, reading, reading passionately. — W. Somerset Maugham

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. — Woodrow Wilson

Be honest about who you are and good things will come. — Lane Hayes

Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved, — Fawzia Koofi

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong. — Terry Pratchett

No matter who you were in sixteenth-century Europe, you could be sure of two things: you would be lucky to reach fifty years of age, and you could expect a life of discomfort and pain. Old age tires the body by thirty-five, Erasmus lamented, but half the population did not live beyond the age of twenty. There were doctors and there was medicine, but there does not seem to have been a great deal of healing. Anyone who could afford to seek a doctor's aid did so eagerly, but the doctor was as likely to maim or kill as to cure. His potions were usually noxious and sometimes fatal - but they could not have been as terrible and traumatic as the contemporary surgical methods. The surgeon and the Inquisitor differed only in their motivation: otherwise, their batteries of knives, saws, and tongs for slicing, piercing, burning, and amputating were barely distinguishable. Without any anesthetic other than strong liquor, an operation was as bad as the torments of hell. — Philip Ball

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was. — Emma Donoghue

An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities. — Margo Kingston

I was never able to analyze my own performance that way I can now. I've realized why certain actors work. I think I'm very in control of what I do in there now. I know how to listen, how to make it real and how not to go to jokes, but to go for a sense of reality. — Steve Dildarian

Every step begins a journey, and this one is for us. — Erin Hunter

She put a hand up to her scars, whispering, Your love comes with a heavy price tag. — Cambria Hebert

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me. — Po Bronson