Hruba Skala Quotes & Sayings

Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. That's not a very good head start. He's had a pretty terrible sixteen years. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all. — Reginald Rose

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. — Walter Savage Landor

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes. — Sergei Prokofiev

Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on out there. — Emma Woolf

Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it. — John Lennon

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love. — Stephen Jay Gould

27John answered, d "A person cannot receive even one thing e unless it is given him f from heaven. — Anonymous

Now, go get inspired! — R.J. Groves

I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence. — Eckhart Tolle

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted. — Victor Hugo

Everyone of you right now is valuable and essential ... — Neill F. Marriott

It was harder to let yourself sink if someone else needed you to be their rock. — Jonathan Maberry

Education is an opportunity, nothing more. It will not guarantee success, or happiness, or contentment, or riches. Everything depends upon what development is produced by it and what use is made of it. It does not mean morality or usefulness. It may make a man more capable of doing harm in the world, for an educated scoundrel is clearly more dangerous than an ignorant one. — George Fillmore Swain