N Chodsk Knihovna Quotes & Sayings

Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point. — Jeff Lindsay

I'll be in an institution for paupers, happy in my utter defeat, mixed up with the rabble of would-be geniuses who were no more than beggars with dreams, thrown in with the anonymous throng of those who didn't have strength enough to conquer nor renunciation enough to conquer by not competing. — Fernando Pessoa

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me. — John Howard Griffin

The penalty for overeagerness is the same as the penalty for unworthiness. — Stephen King

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.) — Jonathan Safran Foer

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Rose, do you think I'd do anything that would hurt you.- Dimitri to Rose — Richelle Mead

If we could capture feelings like we capture pictures, none of us would ever leave our rooms. It would be so tempting to inhabit the good moments over and over again. But I don't want to be the kind of person who lives backwardly, who memorializes moments before she's finished living in them. So I plant my feet here on this hillside beside a boy who is undoing me, and I kiss him back like I mean it. And, God help me, with the sky wrapped around us in every direction, I do mean it. — Emery Lord

You do not realize what can happen when you liberate a mind from what society calls reason. — Ben Willoughby

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. — Anna Magnani

I don't think New Mexicans know how many people vote illegally. — Steve Pearce

I knew why he chose the brown. It was the plainest of my dresses, certainly drab in his eyes, but all the better to contrast and showcase the red he'd have me wear tomorrow. I had no doubt he'd ordered the snow itself as the perfect backdrop, and surely he'd ordered the sun to shine in the morning so as not to deter the crowds. — Mary E. Pearson