Jirina Kudro Quotes & Sayings

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. — John Bolton

The purely Great
Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,
Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate. — James Russell Lowell

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric. — Thelonious Monk

tomorrows feel like a limitless resource. — David Mitchell

Jesus was a good guy, he didn't need this shit. — John Prine

Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment
no matter what happens. — Emily Post

We are all in search of feeling more connected to reality - to other people, the times we live in, the natural world, our character, and our own uniqueness. Our culture increasingly tends to separate us from these realities in various ways. We indulge in drugs or alcohol, or engage in dangerous sports or risky behavior, just to wake ourselves up from the sleep of our daily existence and feel a heightened sense of connection to reality. In the end, however, the most satisfying and powerful way to feel this connection is through creative activity. Engaged in the creative process we feel more alive than ever, because we are making something and not merely consuming, Masters of the small reality we create. In doing this work, we are in fact creating ourselves. — Robert Greene

And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, everybody else seemed so ordinary.
I had flipped. — Wendelin Van Draanen

Just because a person claims to be a Christian does not necessarily mean that he is one. — Billy Graham

Along with my peers, I gripe about the increasing number of superhero films, and I'm sad that so many critics so uncritically use words like franchise, which should be reserved for your local Burger King. — David Edelstein

If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, "We did it ourselves." - Lao Tse — Gerald M. Weinberg

Thank God for forgiveness of my sins. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm convinced people are bored of generic travel — Matt Prior

Leon Wells told of Operation 1005, the group of Jewish prisoners assigned to eradicate the evidence by opening mass graves and exhuming, burning, and pulverizing the bodies.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 87 — Deborah E. Lipstadt