Naczelniczka Quotes & Sayings

History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares: - it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells and bitter bread. — Wislawa Szymborska

I know enough now to know I know nothing. — Amy Poehler

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. — Al Gore

He beheld in swift succession the incidents in the brief tale of his experience. His wretched home, his still more wretched school-days, the years of vicious life he had led since then, one act of selfish dishonour leading to another; it was all clear and pitiless now, all its squalid folly, in the cold light of the dawn. He came to the hut, to the fight with the Porroh man, to the retreat down the river to Sulyma, to the Mendi assassin and his red parcel, to his frantic endeavours to destroy the head, to the growth of his hallucination. It was a hallucination! He knew it was. A hallucination merely. For a moment he snatched at hope. He looked away from the glass, and on the bracket, the inverted head grinned and grimaced at him ... With the stiff fingers of his bandaged hand he felt at his neck for the throb of his arteries. The morning was very cold, the steel blade felt like ice.
("Pollock And The Porrah Man") — H.G.Wells

May you turn
stone, my daughter,
into silk. May you make men better
than they are. — Stephen Dunn

Every time you say 'trust me', I trust you even less — Leigh Bardugo

What we say would not be complete if one word did not cease to exist when it has sounded its constituent parts, so that it can be succeeded by another. — Augustine Of Hippo

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another. — Helen Keller

I am moving towards being vegan. When I crack an egg now, I look and think could that have become a baby — Heather Mills