Kopii Dokumentu Quotes & Sayings

It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue — Elie Wiesel

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top. — Bertrand Russell

Fear nothing but your conscience. — Suzy Kassem

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world. — Epictetus

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide. — Henry David Thoreau

And then the Turkish gendarmes and zaptieh went from Armenian house to Armenian house confiscating weapons or anything they thought might be one. If possible, the priest would come to warn each family that the gendarmes or the zaptieh were coming so they could prepare. The zaptieh knocked on Armenian doors any time of day or night, and they preferred coming at night. They came to the Kazanjians, and the Arslanians, and the Meugerditchians, and to the Hovsepians and Haroutiunians and to the Shekerlemedjians. And finally, they came to our house in the evening after dinner. Three men in dark brown uniforms walked into the foyer and through the courtyard and said to my mother that if she did not hand over every gun in the house, we would be killed. — Peter Balakian

Abuse is an indirect species of homage. — William Hazlitt

I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway. — Suzan-Lori Parks

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that. — Terry Gilliam

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. — Dale Archer

Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it. — Leo Tolstoy

Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me? — J.K. Rowling

Fourth is Lambda, the cosmological constant, which determines the acceleration of the universe. — Michio Kaku

I hate discouraging people and discouraging the people!! — Nelson Jack

Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern. — Marcel Proust