Petrovici Crne Quotes & Sayings

All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret. — Clive Ponting

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. — Napoleon Bonaparte

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers. — Robert G. Ingersoll

The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected - precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command. — Stephen Batchelor

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends. — Jenny Offill