Ksawery Szlenkier Quotes & Sayings

You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world over, yet find nothing but yourself, reflected the world over. So if you now find yourself in a cell, take heart that of all the teachers in the world, out of all the places in the world, you still have with you the only ultimate ingredient of your journey: yourself. — Bo Lozoff

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack. — Stewart Butterfield

[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture. — Sheri S. Tepper

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them. — Ludwig Von Mises

There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, the cars that such people drove tended to be difficult as well. Nice cars have nice drivers; bad cars have bad drivers. A person's gearbox revealed everything that you could want to know about that person, thought Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. — Alexander McCall Smith

I dream about running all the time. — Mark Zupan

By being beautiful and kind you are given favored status and opportunity in life. — Bryant McGill

I read to live. I read for life. — Will Schwalbe

Do you realize there was a time when the United States of America actually made sense? A time when you could look at a Norman Rockwell painting of a GI peeling potatoes for Mom and get all choked up and nobody'd laugh at you? — James K. Morrow

Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person." "Dear Lizzy! — Jane Austen

Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an eye on herself. — Tove Jansson