Oczami Matki Quotes & Sayings

Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible. — Toni Morrison

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. — Theodore Roosevelt

Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist. — Gloria Steinem

From its earliest days, NASA had followed a policy of maximum, though prudent, disclosure. We had to do everything openly - and soon under intensive, live TV coverage. — Gene Kranz

Do you still call it talent, if it blooms without any kind of nurturing? That's got to be something else.
She made talent sound like a damned insult. — Esi Edugyan

Because her laughter spurts through a blowhole in the top of her head and sprays all over the morning. — David Mitchell

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings. — Michel De Montaigne

One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it. — H.P. Lovecraft

Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead? — Tamora Pierce

Justice requires lawyers who are prepared, witnesses who tell the truth, judges who know the law, and jurors who stay awake. Justice is the North Star, the burning bush, the holy virgin. It cannot be bought, sold, or mass produced. It is intangible, ineffable, and invisible, but if you are to spend your life in its pursuit, it is best to believe it exists, and that you can attain it. — Paul Levine

Perserverance: Outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves. — R.S. Guthrie

TV is where a writer can write his novel. — Richard LaGravenese

I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one. — Glenn Miller

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life. — Alan Hirsch