Placek Czeski Quotes & Sayings

The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine. — Michael Sandel

Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it. — Peter Marshall

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. — Lawrence Lessig

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. — Pico Iyer

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life. — Sophocles

Energy is the ultimate convertable currency. — Brian Greene

And then we are kissing, so far into the sky I don't think we're ever coming back. If anyone asks where we are, just tell them to look up. — Jandy Nelson

I've heard that a few things are truth but some of them are not. — Lizthewiz

Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose. — Ann Landers

SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds; Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness . . . INTERPERSONAL SADNESSES: Sadness of being sad in front of one's parent; Sa[dn]ess of false love; Sadness of love [sic]; Friendship sadness; Sadness of a bad conversation; Sadness of the could-have-been; Secret sadness . . . — Jonathan Safran Foer

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix. — Eddie Van Halen

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We then return our gaze to the mirror-boxed future-towns circling us-the hard drives of our culture, where the human tribe is making flesh its deepest needs and fears; teaching machines to think; accelerating the pace of obsolescence; designing new animals to replace the animals we've erased; value adding; reconstructing the future. — Douglas Coupland