Podlaskie Quotes & Sayings

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service. — Paul Weller

To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it. — Gustave Flaubert

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use. — Spoken Reasons

Yet if the Howard years changed little in the law, they had a huge effect on the culture. Most Australians certainly became wealthier, but in the process they became more materialistic and self-centred. Howard constantly held up the ideal of mateship, but in practice he was much more concerned with individuals taking responsibility for themselves than in fostering genuine co-operation within communities, let alone in a wider international context. Indeed, much of his political success derived from setting groups against each other, from bolstering fear and loathing. — Mungo MacCallum

millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? — Henry David Thoreau

I'd never want to have a gun. I don't think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area. — Eric Bolling

The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. — Ben Lerner

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick. — Cesar Chavez

Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures. — Vallabha Acharya

The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work — Sunday Adelaja

Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer. — Matisyahu

Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work. — Deniece Schofield