Izabrane Bajke Quotes & Sayings

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions. — Rene Descartes

How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions — Miguel Syjuco

It is human nature to overdo a thing until one gets sick of it. — Marty Rubin

Britain is obsessed with political correctness. — Marcus Brigstocke

I am a sick man ... I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine. What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise — William Shakespeare

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting. — Margaret Atwood

According to tradition, the originator of Taoism, Lao-tzu, was an older contemporary of Kung Fu-tzu, or Confucius, who died in 479 B.C.1 Lao-tzu is said to have been the author of the Tao Te Ching, a short book of aphorisms, setting forth the principles of the Tao and its power or virtue (Te e). But traditional Chinese philosophy ascribes both Taoism and Confucianism to a still earlier source, to a work which lies at the very foundation of Chinese thought and culture, dating anywhere from 3000 to 1200 B.C. This is the I Ching, or Book of Changes. — Alan W. Watts

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well. — Neville Marriner

In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal. — Benjamin Franklin

All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived. — Linda Lee Cadwell

Whenever I look at the masses, I feel one day the earth will certainly explode. — M.F. Moonzajer

It is foolish to be in thrall to fame and fortune, engaged in painful striving all your life with never a moment of peace and tranquillity. — Yoshida Kenko

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows. — Paul Pierce