Istoricesko Quotes & Sayings

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity. — Clay Shirky

What I won't do is let you give up ... And you're going to have to do all the fighting, sweetheart. You have to be the strong one. All I can do is hold your hand and stand beside you. — Olivia Cunning

Life consists of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Not to be able to find one's 'own' faults; this is called the world. — Dada Bhagwan

Sonnet: Political Greatness
Nor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame,
Nor peace, nor strength, nor skill in arms or arts,
Shepherd those herds whom tyranny makes tame;
Verse echoes not one beating of their hearts,
History is but the shadow of their shame,
Art veils her glass, or from the pageant starts
As to oblivion their blind millions fleet,
Staining that Heaven with obscene imagery
Of their own likeness. What are numbers knit
By force or custom? Man who man would be,
Must rule the empire of himself; in it
Must be supreme, establishing his throne
On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy
Of hopes and fears, being himself alone. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

35. God is entitled to a portion of our income - not because He needs it but because we need to give it. — James C. Dobson

A real man would have fought to be with the woman he loved - social class be damned. — Kelly Oram

Useless Facts About Vodka (How dare you, there's nothing useless about vodka) Vodka does have an expiration date and will most likely go bad after 12 months. Sad but true. No matter, the stuff is usually gone in 12 hours anyways. Until — Daniel Ganninger

We all have to start somewhere.' So start somewhere, anywhere, and give me an idea of what it is you'd like to do. Tell me EVERYTHING. What is your DREAM? — Lauren Graham

If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent? — Joseph Beuys

Sophia thought about the bathrobe more and more. The thing living in it was as quick as lightning but could lie in wait for days without moving. It could make itself thin and slide through a crack in the door, and then roll itself up again and crawl under the bed like a shadow. It didn't eat and never slept and hated everyone, most of all its own family. Sophia didn't eat either, that is, nothing but sandwiches. — Tove Jansson

I read the GAO report, and it reminds me of a review I read of Lady Chatterley's Lover in the magazine Field and Stream. The reviewer of that book knew as much about the real purpose of Lady Chatterley's Lover as the GAO knows about the design and development of submarines. — Sherry Sontag

It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good. — Melody Beattie