Pierwszy Krol Quotes & Sayings

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates. — Joshua Ferris

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle. — John C. McGinley

Give me a little peace.
A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought. — James Goldman

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government. — George Washington

Every stage of life is unique.
At any age and stage of life there are obstacles and opportunities, trials and triumphs.
Never allow the negative bring to you to sudden halt.
Make the most of the positive opportunities and stay positive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He edged closer to his father's bones and sinews. Penny slipped an arm around him and he lay close against the lank thigh. His father was the core of safety. His father swam the swift creek to fetch back his wounded dog. The clearing was safe, and his father fought for it, and for his own. A sense of snugness came over him and he dropped asleep. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected. — Charles Krauthammer

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions. — Rick Moody

Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light, and all colors. There were even the shapes of objects and the distance between objects. Everything was there and movement as well ... Light is an element that we carry inside us and which can grow there with as much abundance, variety, and intensity as it can outside of us ... I could light myself ... that is, I could create a light inside of me so alive, so large, and so near that my eyes, my physical eyes, or what remained of them, vibrated, almost to the point of hurting ... God is there under a form that has the good luck to be neither religious, not intellectual, nor sentimental, but quite simply alive. — Jacques Lusseyran

You see," she interrupted his blank stare, "it doesn't take much effort to be kind. It only takes the ability to recognize where kindness is needed. — Stephen Reid Andrews

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. — Christopher Morley

Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation. — Margaret M. Lock

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. — William Faulkner

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon