Kossak Obrazy Quotes & Sayings

And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good. — Anthony Burgess

The only way you can communicate at a high level is to be conscious of everything you write - every comma, every pronoun, every word, and all their implications. — David Foster Wallace

And I didn't need telepathy, either. Ask any woman you're ever had a relationship with: I guarantee she knew she was second best. A placeholder, till the one you actually wanted came home. — Tana French

Liraz was special. Specially antisocial. Spectacularly, even. — Laini Taylor

I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case the skeletons are drafts. — Dean Koontz

It wouldn't be fair to ask you to be around me when I'm so sick of being around me. — David Levithan

Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life. — Ezra Taft Benson

Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down. — Garrison Keillor

A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is. -Cross Marian — Katsura Hoshino

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne! — Winston Churchill

The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character — Roland Barthes

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned. — George Lucas

You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed. — Ayn Rand

Knocknaree wood was the real thing, and it was more intricate and more secretive than I had remembered. It had its own order, its own fierce battles and alliances. I was an intruder here, now, and I had a deep prickling sense that my presence had instantly been marked and that the wood was watching me, with an equivocal collected gaze, not yet accepting or rejecting; reserving judgement. — Tana French

Suppose you have a group of fifty experimental subjects, who you hypothesize (H) are human beings. You observe (O) that one of them is an albino. Now, albinism is extremely rare, affecting no more than one in twenty thousand people. So given that H is correct, the chance you'd find an albino among your fifty subjects is quite small, less than 1 in 400,* or 0.0025. So the p-value, the probability of observing O given H, is much lower than .05. We are inexorably led to conclude, with a high degree of statistical confidence, that H is incorrect: the subjects in the sample are not human beings. — Jordan Ellenberg