Kondratyuk Valery Quotes & Sayings

If it weren't for the people, the god-damn people' said Finnerty, 'always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren't for them, the world would be an engineer's paradise. — Kurt Vonnegut

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments. — Fareed Zakaria

The Rottnest Light is a stumpy middle finger sticking up from the a rocky rise, grunting, Sit on this, mate. — David Mitchell

If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too. — Mildred Cable

You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization. — Sudhir Kakar

The whole process of claiming a colony (on land already occupied by other people) is awfully arbitrary in the first place. Essentially, the British built their empire by sailing around and sticking flags on random beaches. — Randall Munroe

Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh,
Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,
Will even weigh, and both as light as tales. — William Shakespeare

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty. — Ihara Saikaku