Jurij Toplak Quotes & Sayings

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less. — Samuel Johnson

Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the f-ck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH! — Ozzy Osbourne

We see ... a future where no one-no one-is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance. — Joe Biden

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done. — Julius Evola

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned. — Kevin Garnett

Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize the civil service, including law enforcement. — Frank Wolf

Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots. — Christopher Paolini

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it. — Red Adair

I find that the longer I live, the more I worry about people and the less I worry about rules. — Daniel Quinn

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category ... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress. — Frederic Bastiat

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. — Andy Goldsworthy

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. — Julian Barnes

To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity
be it art, music, literature, or science
is the way it enriches our lives. — Lawrence M. Krauss

The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition. — Panashe Chigumadzi

common sense is not a specific destination but rather an ongoing process. It is, however, an essential ingredient of the recipe for success. — Vishwas Chavan