Grabowska Poland Quotes & Sayings

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. — Jane Jacobs

So spoke the man whose importance originated in the golden harvest he had reaped with the resistless hand of force, from the the legal, but unfortunate possessors, in a far distant region, where the conviction of riches proves certain destruction to the hapless natives, and poverty is considered as the greatest crime their European plunderers can possibly be accused of. — Helen Craik

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing. — Chris Fabry

Compassion is born when we discover in the center of our own existence not only that God is God and man is man, but also that our neighbor is really our fellow man. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things. — Plato

In biblical study, it should invariably be the rule that you must start with the whole before you begin to pay attention to the parts. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. — Samuel Butler

The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but you just sit there at a piano like you're playing, and suddenly all this amazing music comes out and the audience believes you can do it. It's the same with computers. I love scenes where there are people yanking at monitors, "yes I'll put you through now," and you know they're just doing that. But you can look brilliant at all this technology. I love it. — Michael Sheen

I went to a house that was not a house. I opened a door that was not a door. And what I saw, I saw. — Simon R. Green

To become good at anything you have to know how to apply basic principles. To become great at it, you have to know when to violate those principles. — Garry Kasparov

I have a reputation for being pretty much of a wild man. — Bill Hunter

How could I wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical house, and discover that home is now someplace different. — Stephanie Perkins

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality. — Bootsy Collins

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. — Douglas Coupland