Miroslav Zikmund Quotes & Sayings

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal. — Pearl S. Buck

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream. — Michael Nesmith

Kestrel felt a slow, slight throb, a shimmer in the blood. She knew it well.
Her worst trait. Her best trait.
The desire to come out on top, to set her opponent under her thumb.
A streak of pride. Her mind ringed with hungry rows of foxlike teeth. — Marie Rutkoski

You cannot have well people on a sick planet. — Thomas Berry

The painting also pinpointed an important quirk of Washington's face: the lazy right eye that slid off into the corner while the left eye stared straight ahead. To prepare for the equestrian — Ron Chernow

Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul. — Kahlil Gibran

Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library. — Bob Hartley

We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease. — Laura Bush

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public. — Charles Lamb

"How are you doing?" - - - better than I deserve ... — John Piper

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation. — Guy Debord

I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened. — Marlen Esparza