Franjo Mihalic Quotes & Sayings

Today is today, and tomorrow is tomorrow. I'm just going to enjoy it. — Troy Dumais

One does not escape that easily from the seduction of an effete way of life. You cannot arbitrarily say to yourself, I will now continue my life as it was before this thing, Success, happened to me. But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once you know this is true, that the heart of man, his body and his brain, are forged in a white-hot furnace for the purpose of conflict (the struggle of creation) and that with the conflict removed, man is a sword cutting daisies, that not privation but luxury is the wolf at the door and that the fangs of this wolf are all little vanities and conceits and laxities that Success is heir to - why, then with this knowledge you are at least in a position to know where danger lies. — Tennessee Williams

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Energy efficiency should be on the priority list for all home improvement work these days. Canny builders will be able to provide homeowners with energy efficient measures which help them to save money and the planet. — Sarah Beeny

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream. — Rene Magritte

Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
[Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.] — Ovid

Twilight was the worst hour, because it was the hour of indecision. — Helen Eustis

Stardust is
the hardest thing
to hold out for.
You must make of yourself
a perfect plane-
something still
upon which
something settles-
something like
sugar grains on
something like
metal, but with
none of the chill.
It's hard to explain.
Stardust — Kay Ryan

Listening to people howl in misery is not one of my favourite pastimes. — John Green

To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to ... make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity. — Calvin Coolidge

The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music which ... sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time. It is therefore, no longer surprising that man, in imitation of his creator, has at last discovered the art of figured song, which was unknown to the ancients. Man wanted to reproduce the continuity of cosmic time ... to obtain a sample test of the delight of the Divine Creator in His works, and to partake of his joy by making music in the imitation of God. — Johannes Kepler

The love of power excludes all others. — Indro Montanelli

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points. — Lewis Carroll

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing. — John Sununu

One expresses well only the love he does not feel. — Alphonse Karr