Jedermann Kocsma Quotes & Sayings

He assumed his stillness like a shield, impervious and impenetrable; she wondered if it hid a total stranger or someone as familiar as to her as his name. — Patricia A. McKillip

We typically misunderstand what's wrong about consumerism. It's not that it makes us love material things too much. To be a good consumer, you have to desire to get lots of things, but you must not love any of them too much once you have them. Consumerism needs children who do not stay attached to their toys for very long and learn to expect the next round of presents as soon as possible. When consumerism succeeds, our attachments are shallow, easily broken, so we can move on to the next thing we're supposed to get. Being a good consumer means desiring new things, not cherishing old ones. And the new things you're supposed to desire are not always material things. Spirituality is now a consumerist enterprise, too. — Phillip Cary

Ute woman holding a child and looking skyward. There was — Heather Graham

Could you ever completely give up on someone that you loved? From her painful experience with Travis, Lily didn't think so.. — Bella Andre

As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan. — James Inhofe

If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides. — Johannes Kepler

Naturally Teseo had a joke about all the government promises to increase housing construction: "If there were no future tense in Spanish, Castro would be speechless. — Regina Anavy

Every day, I think I am going to be surprised by how remarkable you are, but I am not. Because this is what it means to be you. It means knowing — Renee Ahdieh

A mother's job is to prop open all possible doors for her children. — Lauren Groff

Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten — Joe Louis

We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life. — Franz Wright

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think! — Voltaire