Maciag Agnieszka Blog Quotes & Sayings

Jezal swallowed and hunched his shoulders, watching the chunks of long dead wood file slowly past like rows of tombstones. "I don't like this," he muttered under his breath.
"You think I do?" Bayaz frowned grimly over at him. "You think any of us do? Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered. It is through struggle, not ease, that fame and honor are won. It is through conflict, not peace, that wealth and power are gained. — Joe Abercrombie

If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past. — E. M. Forster

I feel the hot winds of karma driving me. — Philip K. Dick

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values. — Rick Perry

One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve. — Carolyn Hart

If you don't like your outcomes, change your responses. — Jack Canfield

Sometimes getting insane is all worth it, because sanity doesn't make sense all the time. — Sarvesh Jain

Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever since the dawn of history, we have engaged in conflict and war and terrorism and murder and racism and ethnocentrism and bigotry and prejudice in the name of God. — Deepak Chopra

There was too much opinion in this country, too many sob stories. Nobody wanted to put a lid on anything; everyone wanted to say it all, about everything. If you as much as said hello to someone on a train or a plane, you were in for the unexpurgated memoirs. Nehru in 1947 had declared us a nation finding utterance - but in fifty years the utterance had become a mad clamour, a crazed babble, an unending howl. We were a nation of Scheherzades, afraid we'd die if, for a moment, we shut up. For myself, I'd mastered a face of steel, and an inscrutable nod. It did not always shut everyone up, but it did to some extent dam the ghastly flow. — Tarun J. Tejpal

He ducked down, kissing her, and she moved against him, urging him to touch her, to find the secret self that only ever seemed to exist with him as he moved over her, with her,and she let herself fall into it, dissolving into him. And what she found in the soft warm darkness had no beginning and no end, for this was their own, and it created its own eternity. — Alexandra Bracken

We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor ... Millions will always remain poor. — Mahatma Gandhi