Nekada I Sada Quotes & Sayings

Nostalgia is a fragile and tender anguish, basically different, more intimate, more human than the other pains we had endured till then [ ... ] Nostalgia is a limpid and clean pain, but demanding; it permeates every minute of the day, permits no other thoughts and induces a need for escape. — Primo Levi

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it. — Bell Hooks

You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer. — Barry Sanders

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. — Henry A. Wallace

I tell stories about people audiences might think they have nothing in common with, then they emotionally connect with them and find they're not different at all. — Gurinder Chadha

To win the peace, fight with your love and understanding. — Debasish Mridha

Though I loved the wired world, the new-wave librarians, the avatars and activists, I turned into a dinosaur in that library. I couldn't help it; I was an old-fashioned writer who loved the ancient books summoned via pneumatic tubes, the archives, the quiet. I had found something rare there: an inexhaustible wonder. — Marilyn Johnson

M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is out of date. Life goes faster than Realism, but Romanticism is always in front of Life. — Oscar Wilde

Executions were meant as an exercise in frightfulness according to the theory developed by the Emperor Caligula: "Oderint dum metuant" (Let them hate us as long as they fear us). — Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are beautiful for reading and they're also beautiful for holding. — John Green

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
— Richard Ford

Learning to breathe fire isn't nearly as extraordinary as learning to breathe a word of kindness. — Richelle E. Goodrich

For this is the last best gift that the kindly demi-god is careful to bestow on those to whom he has revealed himself in their helping: the gift of forgetfulness. Lest the awful remembrance should remain and grow, and overshadow mirth and pleasure, and the great haunting memory should spoil all the after-lives of little animals helped out of difficulties, in order that they should be happy and lighthearted as before. — Kenneth Grahame

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets. — Douglas William Jerrold