Holeckova Skola Quotes & Sayings

In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both a middle-class husband and wife or a single parent over $10,000 a year. — Rachel Lehmann-Haupt

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. — Eric Hoffer

Substitution ... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image. — Andrei Tarkovsky

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ... — Elizabeth Gaskell

It seemed impossible, from within love at least, that this could have been anything but fate. It would have taken a steady mind to contemplate without superstition the enormous probability of a meeting that had turned out to alter our lives. Someone at (30,000 feet) must have been pulling strings in the sky. — Alain De Botton

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents]. — Laura Schlessinger

This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be? — Charles Yu

And there are those who have little and give it all. — Kahlil Gibran

the question is not whether more flies can be caught with honey than with vinegar, but why the flies are being caught in either case - and how this feels to the fly. — Alfie Kohn