Pewna Zava Quotes & Sayings

There were always five things that needed doing immediately and ten that should have been done yesterday. — Robert Jordan

Equality is what does not exist among mortals. — E. E. Cummings

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things. — Matana Roberts

Breaking, in modern psychology, 'learned helplessness.' This is where you crush an animal's desire to fight. Why is it that we believe broken things are tamed possessions? — Rebecca K. O'Connor

Your mind can imagine what others cannot.
Your heart can sense what others cannot.
Your soul can receive what others cannot.
Your feet can go where others cannot.
Your hands can do what others cannot. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story. — Hironobu Sakaguchi

Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness. Let there spring, Gentle One, from out its leaves vigor of thought and thoughtful deed to reap the harvest wonderful. Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood is mockery and a snare. Thus in Thy good time may infinite reason turn the tangle straight, and these crooked marks on a fragile leaf be not indeed — W.E.B. Du Bois

My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother's alarmingly narrow ideal, but also for the middle daughter who knew that her in mother's mind she had already failed. — Alexandra Robbins

I'm easy to hate. I get it. — Olivia Munn

The Internet of Things is not about a talking refrigerator, because that is the old-fashioned consumer retail world of electrical white goods. It's an archaic concept, like software bought in a plastic-wrapped box from a shelf. The genuine Internet of Things wants to invade that refrigerator, measure it, instrument it, monitor any interactions with it; it would cheerfully give away a fridge at cost. — Bruce Sterling

Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much. — Alice Moore Hubbard