Nyugalom Letbiztos T S Quotes & Sayings

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us. — Michel De Montaigne

The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust; rags to rags; fear to fear. — V.S. Naipaul

It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times. — Fulton J. Sheen

On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man. — Princess Marie Bonaparte

The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history. — Seth Berkley

How could people not believe in magic when the whole world is made of it? — A.D. Posey

But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A book is a kind of of machine which the reader can freely use as a generator of intellectual stimulation. It is enough that the book should be truly a machine for thinking, that it should generate a variety of possible conclusions without its author's ordaining and limiting them in advance. — Umberto Eco

I definitely think men prefer women more undone and natural than butch and masculine. They prefer a fresher, sexier, more feminine look. — Marie Helvin

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings. — Francis Bacon

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression. — Richelle E. Goodrich

As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time. — Kim Hyesoon

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. — George Bernard Shaw

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love. — Thomas M. Disch

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now. — Dave Navarro