Kukavica Text Quotes & Sayings

I was surprised to see that the pupil remained small and did not noticeably dilate as she talked and listened. Unlike the tasks that we were studying, the mundane conversation apparently demanded little or no effort - no more than retaining two or three digits. — Daniel Kahneman

We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It used to get so damp in there, we'd have a rainbow above it. — Phyllis Diller

You wish to rule the Dreaming City; you must excel in all its ways. Play with me, a single game of Lo Shen. If you best me, I will go into seclusion as you ask, and you will ascend to the Tower without the slightest argument, and without battle. No one will contest you, and you will rule as well as you are able. If you lose, however, you must disband your army, and take the vows of one of our Towers, enter it as a novice, and pledge yourself to our City for the rest of your days. In the Anointed City, this is the way disputes are settled. If you would rule us, you must behave as one of us. Show me that you are the rightful Papess. Show me that you exceed us in all things."
Ragnhild seemed to laugh, but no sound issued from her rosy mouth. Her eyes glittered like snowflakes catching the sun. "You cannot be serious. A single game to decide five hundred years of history?"
"Were it not that once my predecessor harmed you, I would simply kill you where you stand. — Catherynne M Valente

As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land on the banks of the Ohio. — Alexandre Dumas

Peace be with you," Pope Francis said. "This is not a greeting nor even a simple good wish: it is a gift, indeed, the precious gift that Christ offered his disciples after he had passed through death and hell." (Regina Caeli, April 7, 2013). Peace is experienced by the one who allows himself to be loved. — Simone Troisi

She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was. — Anna Funder

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits. — Patrick O'Brian

Within the whispers of love, I found my heart. Within a glimmer from a ray, I found my soul. Within both, I found myself. — Raneem Kayyali

There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it. — Winston Churchill

We must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death — Julian Barnes

America is the most compassionate country in the entire world. We do more for folks around this world. And that's the nature of the American people. — Bobby Jindal

Pittsburgh did not smell of mayonnaise that day. — Sandra Staas