Narodi Starog Quotes & Sayings

War did not come like a hurricane, Rorimer realized, destroying everything in its path. It came like a tornado, touching down in patches, taking with it one life while leaving the next person unharmed. — Robert M. Edsel

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle? — Audrey Hepburn

If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

The sun appears to pour itself down, and indeed its light pours in all direction, but the stream does not run out. This pouring is linear extension: that is why its beams are called rays, because they radiate in extended lines. You can see what a ray is if you observe the sun's light entering a dark room through a narrow opening. It extends in a straight line and impacts, so to speak, on any solid body in its path which blocks passage through the air on the other side: it settles there and does not slip off or fall. — Marcus Aurelius

Even if you win three or four times, the next victory will not necessarily be yours without trying. — Malala Yousafzai

I couldn't master this kind of apathy, no matter how hard I tried. I was built to care - to notice, to overanalyze, to try - in a way that felt inalterable. — Emery Lord

A true warrior," she said, "does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes. — Christopher Paolini

A man craves ultimate truths. Every mortal mind, I think, is that way. But what is ultimate truth? It's the end of the road, where there is no more mystery, no more hope. And no more questions to ask, since all the answers have been given. But there is no such place.
The Universe is a labyrinth made of labyrinths. Each leads to another. And wherever we cannot go ourselves, we reach with mathematics. Out of mathematics we build wagons to carry us into the nonhuman realms of the world. — Stanislaw Lem

We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd. — Josiah Bancroft

The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them. — John R.W. Stott

I think there are lots of things still to be discovered. You just have to be paying attention. — Morgan Matson

I care for her about my mom like a Maggie (three Donalds per serving). — Jarod Kintz

Fuck you.
I countered, demonstrating my keen skill at argument. — Julie Kenner

A little bloodthirsty, isn't it? (Kim)
Given what they did to Tory, I'm thinking a quick death is merciful. Not to mention they ruined one of my favorite jackets and totaled my bike. (Acheron)
Well, let's just torture then bomb the bastards. How dare they! (Pam) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When you buy a new pair of shoes you can start all fresh again and have confendce on what you are going — Lisa Greenwald