Haskala Quotes & Sayings

My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them. — Rory McIlroy

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life. — Virender Sehwag

Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end. — Neil Young

I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires. — Cate Blanchett

Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them. — Renata Adler

I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation. — Vy Higginsen

Besides advising us to avoid people with vices, Seneca advises us to avoid people who are simply whiny, "who are melancholy and bewail everything, who find pleasure in every opportunity for complaint. — William B. Irvine

... the extent to which a society focuses on the needs of its lowest common denominator is the extent to which that society'll be mired in mediocrity. Whereas, if we would aim the bulk of our support at the brightest, most talented, most virtuous instead, then they would have the wherewithal to solve a lot of our problems, to uplift the whole culture, enlighten it or something, so that eventually there wouldn't be so many losers and weaklings impeding evolution and dragging the whole species down ... . Martyrs ... just perpetuate human misery by catering to it ... . Individuals have to take responsibility for their own lives and accept the consequences of their choices. — Tom Robbins

There is no money in the world that would compensate me for writing a lousy book. — David Lagercrantz

Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty
Her throne is in heaven above. — George Eliot

Virtually every literary piece written about Adolf Hitler in more than half a century since 1945 has been based on antipathy.
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 11 — Russel H.S. Stolfi