Kotva Hracholusky Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit. — Henry David Thoreau

You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself. — Auliq Ice

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves. — Edith Wharton

The worst part? Knowing that since a book this moving, this enthralling and enveloping comes along, as I said, only every once in a while, it will be many, many moons until we see its like again. - Sara Nelson — Amazon Books Editors

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another ... after the war is on. — Robert M. La Follette

No man can become a saint in his sleep. — Henry Drummond

He stood frozen, staring at me as if he didn't know how to do anything else. I couldn't focus; it was like all the world's blue had originated from his eyes. It was all there, the color of midnight, the sky, the ocean, and blue raspberry lollipops. Why had I spent so much time pretending they weren't remarkable? — Rose Fall

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there. — Andrew Mitchell

He seemed for an instant to stand above the accidents of his existence, and he felt that they could not affect him again as they had done before. Whatever happened to him now would be more motive to add to the complexity of the pattern, and when the end approached he would rejoice in its completion. It would be a work of art, and it would be none the less beautiful because he alone knew of its existence, and with his death it would at once cease to be. — W. Somerset Maugham

This is not a book about teaching a child how to read; it's about teaching a child to want to read. There's an education adage that goes, "What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn." The fact is that some children learn to read sooner than others, while some learn better than others. There is a difference. For the parent who thinks that sooner is better, who has an eighteen-month-old child barking at flash cards, my response is: sooner is not better. Are the dinner guests who arrive an hour early better guests than those who arrive on time? Of course not. — Jim Trelease

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words. — Sophocles

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume. — Winston Churchill

With great freedom comes great responsibility, someone said once, well, it doesn't work the other way around. — Antoine Wilson

Many, perhaps most, people who lose their jobs are mistaken about the reason for which they lost their jobs. Some will say that they're failures, others that their boss had it in for them, and others yet that they were sure their career ended because of a stupid faux pas they made at the company picnic. — Harvey MacKay

I enjoy using coconut oil - not only for my skin and hair, but I'll digest it. — Nicole Ari Parker