Hriscanska Filozofija Quotes & Sayings

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. — John Fowles

How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions? — Laura Jensen Walker

You want cookies? she asked, her Texas accent at odds with her Asian features. — Darynda Jones

I can't even put gas in my plane! — Chris Rock

Stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life. — Alexander Gustafsson

The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual. — Karen Traviss

Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors. — Julian Assange

Every human being makes mistakes and does things they're not proud of. They can be everyday, or they can be catastrophic. And the unfortunate truth of being human is that we all have moments of indifference to other people's suffering. To me, that's the central thing that allows crime to happen: indifference to other people's suffering. If you're stealing from someone, if you're hurting them physically, if you're selling them a product that you know will hurt them - the thing that allows a person to do that is that they somehow convince themselves that that's not relevant to them. We all do things that we're not proud of, even though they might not have as terrible consequences. — Piper Kerman

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now. — Radha Mitchell

Oh, yes - being interested in acting never changes. Acting is in your blood, and of course I'll always be interested in it. — Ariana Richards

A world in which the choices we make do not finally matter, because our wills are already fixed beneath the weight of a crushing determinism, is not a human world. — William Shakespeare

The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is characteristically praising or commending or recommending it, etc. But it is a fallacy to infer from this that the meaning of "good" is explained by saying it is used to perform the act of commendation. — John Searle

They that do much themselves deny,
Receive more blessings from the sky. — Thomas Creech