Hrdlicka Catalog Quotes & Sayings

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not. — Aldo Leopold

It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable of men in society, never to contradict anybody. — Thomas Jefferson

Not a facade of cockiness to hide deeper insecurities, but a true self-belief and measured evaluation of what she could and could not accomplish. — R.A. Salvatore

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them. — Christopher McDougall

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. — William Shakespeare

So I looked. Silly as it sounds now, I looked. By comparison, going after the Grail would have made more sense. I won't talk about it, it's too embarrassing. I looked until I wised up. I stopped making a fool of myself, but something died inside of me - something that I'd always sort of liked and admired. In its place grew a scar - a tough spot but also a sore spot. — Daniel Quinn

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else. — Wanda Koop

My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of. — Banana Yoshimoto

The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer. — Gaston Bachelard

No one feels good at four in the morning.
If ants feel good at four in the morning
- three cheers for the ants. — Wislawa Szymborska

In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn. — James Thurber

At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation? — Hanif Kureishi

She invented her own language to say what everyone else could only feel. — Hannah Kent

We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better. — Brody Armstrong