Loskot Hradec Quotes & Sayings

Some years ago a psychiatrist had told me that finding out things other people didn't want known was my way of trying to stay even with a society filled with people bigger than I was. The remark had been meant to startle, to provoke insight, and eventually to alter my behavior.
Instead, I'd simply found that I thoroughly agreed with him and had gone out after a private investigator's license.
[Dr. Robert Frederickson AKA Mongo] — George Chesbro

In prison, you learn to count each day and each moment. You even count the bad 'meals' and the unbearable ones. — Abdullah Abu Snaineh

I think that if we are going to reform the world, and make it a better place to live in, the way to do it is not with talk about relationships of the political nature ... I think that kind of approach starts it at the end and presumes the end is the beginning. Programs of a political nature are important and products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. — Robert M. Pirsig

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. — Rene Cassin

Then I remembered a joke told by a Tibetan friend: "What is the difference between a Buddhist and a non-Buddhist?" The answer: "The non-Buddhist thinks there is one. — Eric Dinerstein

Cities and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die — Rudyard Kipling

So welcome the wind and the wisdom she offers, follow her summons when she calls again.
In your heart and your spirit, let the breezes surround you.
Lift up your voice then and sing with the wind. — John Denver

Thunder bellowed, barely audible above the explosion of wind and wave. How did this tiny brig withstand such a beating? Surely the timbers would burst any moment, splintering and filling the room with the mad gush of the sea. Locking her arms with the ladies on either side, she closed her eyes as the galloping ship tossed them like rag dolls over the hard deck. — MaryLu Tyndall