Gjithcka Per Floket Quotes & Sayings

And whenever the prime concern in life is money-making, then you have trickery and brutality and wrong. I'm saying that, not from what I have heard, but from what I have observed in a long life among our own folk. — Neil M. Gunn

You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become. — Colleen Houck

I try to do what has never been done before. — Ishmael Reed

For a good man fame is always a problem. — Graham Greene

My first impression of [Patricia Highsmith] was a loneliness, a sadness in one so young (we were both in our early thirties) with absolutely no sense of joy or balance. Gauche to an extreme, really physically clumsy as well as boyish, it was almost impossible to put her at ease. It was as if she felt a deep distrust of everything. — Patricia Schartle

What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening the use of nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves. — Martin Amis

One does not have to prove a negative. One should assume a negative. — David Eller

Humility is not thinking less of ourselves, but thinking of ourselves less. — Anonymous

If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject - which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride. — J.R.R. Tolkien

At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract people from noticing — Patrick Ness

When you are in pain, a moment is an eternity. — Matthew J. Kirby

She was as intense in her hatreds as in her loves. — L.M. Montgomery

If any religion turns against love of equal partners, there's something flawed with the religion, not the love. — Akilnathan Logeswaran