Osteuropa Journal Quotes & Sayings

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give. — Julian Fellowes

Maybe that's why we used to get along so well - we both enjoyed lounging around in our own chaos. — Heidi R. Kling

Whenever the cadaverous Home Office security supervisor became involved in their affairs, babies cried, women cowered, innocence was punished and blame was wrongly apportioned. — Christopher Fowler

Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach. — Paulo Coelho

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door. — William H Gass

They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it's actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims old suffering often enables us to move on. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism. — Ted Chiang

Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good. — Gautama Buddha

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles. — John Wooden

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome. — Gautama Buddha

Maybe we can help. Where are you from? I've never seen you around here before. And, how did you get that cut? Where are you staying?" He shook his head and giggled. "Are you the police? You ask a lot of questions Phoenix." "No. I just ... never mind." I wanted to know more about him. The way those sparkly green eyes gazed at me. The way his dimples sunk deep into his cheeks, as he smiled and said my name with his deep voice. — N.I.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others. — Abraham Lincoln

Change is inevitable, progress is not. — Max McKeown