Krtkova Quotes & Sayings

I walked downhill to the rental place, my backpack ten pounds heavier than it was this morning because of three huge textbooks: one on government from world history class; one from English class called Catastrophes of New England: 1650 to 1875; and a much-used book from my last class of the day, Non-Euclidean Geometry. The class was taught by Mr. Gint, a pale, balding man who barely looked at us. The entire class period he sat at his desk with a protractor and pencil, drawing pictures and muttering to himself. — Daryl Gregory

Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us. — Teresa Of Avila

A life without living was simply a death without dying. — Ais

I feel like dying when I'm helpless — Stan Laurel

For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion. — Dweezil Zappa

Be at peace now and let the tide carry you into calm water. That is all you have to do for the moment. God bless you. — Elizabeth Goudge

Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated. — Fred Lowe Soper

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — Walter Darby Bannard

I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed. — Taylor Momsen

He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their existence. But when he saw them he knew that he had always known them and realized what part each one of them had played at many an hour in his life when he had supposed himself alone, so that now he could say to them, one by one, not 'Who are you?' but 'So it was you all the time.' All that they were and said at this meeting woke memories. The dim consciousness of friends about him which had haunted his solitudes from infancy was now at last explained; that central music in every pure experience which had always just evaded memory was now at last recovered...He saw not only Them; he saw Him. This animal, this thing begotten in a bed, could look on Him. What is blinding, suffocating fire to you is now cool light to him, is clarity itself, and wears the form of a man. — C.S. Lewis

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action. — Joseph M. Juran

As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. — Edward Young