Kwiecinski Raf Quotes & Sayings

It was the Oats that read avidly and always remembered those passages which cast doubt on the literal truth of the Book of Om - and nudged him and said, if this isn't true, what can you believe? — Terry Pratchett

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction. — Abraham Lincoln

My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles. — Mayim Bialik

No man can delegate, ... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only to make the 3rd person his slave, but also a right to dispose of him as a slave to still other persons. Any contract to do this is necessarily a criminal one ... To call such a contract a "constitution" does not at all lessen its criminality, or add to its validity. — Lysander Spooner

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity. — Jacob Burckhardt

All my life, I've been very aware that time is finite. — Randy Pausch

All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep. — Rumi

While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing. — Nicholas Sparks

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears. — Richard Russo

A single tear forms, just in the corner of one eye, but it doesn't roll down my cheek; it merely crystallizes in the cold air, it grows and grows into a second giant globe that doesn't want to orbit with the world - it breaks off from the planet and plunges into infinity. — Ingeborg Bachmann

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments; my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader. — Tulsi Gabbard

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend. — James Van Der Beek

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted. — Vivienne Westwood