Greceasca Quotes & Sayings

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history ... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel ... — Jose Emilio Pacheco

I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces — Jackie Robinson

I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself. — Gloria Gaynor

I should add that there are undoubtedly charming Englishmen; I have often met them. But they are rarely our fellow-guests at hotels. — Guy De Maupassant

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. — Oscar Wilde

Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource. — Edmund Burke

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds. — Taylor Lautner

Children often overestimate their importance in the parent's life — Altaf Tyrewala

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. — Desmond Tutu

The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The various substitutes have not proved so successful from the standpoint of results that they could be regarded as a useful replacement for previous religious creeds. But if religious doctrine and faith are really to embrace the broad masses, the unconditional authority of the content of this faith is the foundation of all efficacy. — Adolf Hitler

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate — Albert Camus